Title: Nothing succeeds like failure : the sad history of American business schools /
Authors: Conn, Steven
Year: 2019
Subjects: Business education United States History.; Business schools United States History.; Master of business administration degree United States History.
Abstract: "Since they were founded in the late nineteenth century, business schools have made many promises to higher education, to businesses and to American society that they have consistently failed to keep"--
Contents: Introduction : the beast that ate campus -- The world before (and shortly after) Wharton : getting a business education in the 19th century -- Teach the children ... what? : business schools and their curricular confusions -- Dismal science vs. applied economics : the unhappy relationship between business schools and economics departments -- It's a white man's world : women and African Americans in business schools -- Good in a crisis? : how business schools responded to economic downturns, or didn't -- Same as it ever was : how business schools helped create the new Gilded Age.