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From Higher Aims to Hired Hands

Rakesh Khurana

How did business schools, created to make management a respected profession, end up helping to undermine it?

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Author
Rakesh Khurana

Why read it

  • You will see how business schools gave up training managers as professionals with duties to society and began teaching shareholder market logic
  • You will weigh the claim that business schools did not merely follow the business world but actively reshaped it
  • You will question why managers run corporations at all, a question the author says even repeated scandals have not prompted

Who it is for

  • An MBA student curious what business school is really for
  • A board member weighing manager power against investor power
  • A business school professor rethinking what the school should teach

Contents

  1. INTRODUCTION
  2. Business Education and the Social Transformation of American Management
  3. I
  4. The Professionalization Project in American Business Education, 1881–1941
  5. II
  6. The Institutionalization of Business Schools, 1941–1970
  7. III
  8. The Triumph of the Market and the Abandonment of the Professionalization Project, 1970–the Present
  9. EPILOGUE
  10. Ideas of Order Revisited: Markets, Hierarchies, and Communities
  11. Bibliographic and Methods Note

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