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Author Conn, Steven, author.

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

Publication Info. Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2019.
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Description 1 online resource (viii, 277 pages).
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Series Histories of American education
Histories of American education.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction : the beast that ate campus -- The world before (and shortly after) Wharton : getting a business education in the nineteenth 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.
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.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Business education -- United States -- History.
Business education.
United States.
History.
Business schools -- United States -- History.
Business schools.
Master of business administration degree -- United States -- History.
Master of business administration degree.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Conn, Steven. Nothing succeeds like failure. Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2019 9781501742071 (DLC) 2019006302
ISBN 9781501742095 (electronic book)
1501742094 (electronic book)
9781501742088 (electronic book)
1501742086 (electronic book)
9781501742071 (hardcover alkaline paper)

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