Bibliograph

Nothing succeeds like failure, the sad history of American business schools, Steven Conn

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Label

Nothing succeeds like failure, the sad history of American business schools, Steven Conn

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [251]-267) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Nothing succeeds like failure

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1089275155

Responsibility statement

Steven Conn

Series statement

Histories of American education

Sub title

the sad history of American business schools

Summary

"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"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of 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

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