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Nothing succeeds like failure : the sad history of American business schools / Steven Conn.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Histories of American educationPublication details: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, (c)2019.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781501742088
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • HF1131 .N684 2019
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Contents:
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.
Subject: "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"--
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Includes bibliographies and index.

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.

"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"--

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