Nothing Succeeds Like Failure

Steven Conn

Description

Do business schools actually make good on their promises of "innovative," "outside-the-box" thinking to train business leaders who will put society ahead of money-making? Do they help society by making better business leaders? No, they don't, Steven Conn asserts, and what's more they never have. In throwing down a gauntlet on the business of business schools, Conn's Nothing Succeeds Like Failure examines the frictions, conflicts, and contradictions at the heart of these enterprises and details the way business schools have failed to resolve them. Beginning with founding of the Wharton School in 1881, Conn measures these schools' aspirations against their actual accomplishments and tells the full and disappointing history of missed opportunities, unmet aspirations, and educational mistakes. Conn then poses a set of crucial questions about the role and function of American business schools. The results aren't pretty. Posing a set of crucial questions about the function of American business schools, Nothing Succeeds Like Failure is pugnacious and controversial. Deeply researched and fun to read, Nothing Succeeds Like Failure argues that the impressive facades of business school buildings resemble nothing so much as collegiate versions of Oz. Conn pulls back the curtain to reveal a story of failure to meet the expectations of the public, their missions, their graduates, and their own lofty aspirations of producing moral and ethical business leaders.

Sujets

• History of education
• Higher education

Informations

• Publié par: Cornell University Press
• Date de parution: 15 octobre 2019
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781501742088
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 Mo

Extrait

NothIng Succeeds Ike FaILure

A ôûé î é ŝéîéŝ HIstorIes of AmerIcan EducatIon

Eîé  Jôàà Zîéà

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NothIng Succeeds Ike FaILure

The Sad Hîstory of Amerîcan Busîness Schoos

Steven Conn

CorneLL UnIversIty Press ïthaca and ondon

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îà ô Côéŝŝ Cààôî-î-Pûîçàîô Dàà Nàéŝ: Cô, Séé, àûô. Tîé: Nôî ŝûççééŝ îé àîûé : é ŝà îŝô ô Aéîçà ûŝîéŝŝ ŝçôôŝ / Séé Cô. Déŝçîîô: ïàçà [Né Yô] : Côé Uîéŝî Péŝŝ, 2019. | Séîéŝ: Hîŝôîéŝ ô Aéîçà éûçàîô. | ïçûéŝ îîôàîçà éééçéŝ à îé. ïéîiéŝ: CCN 2019006302 (î) | CCN 2019009534 (éôô) | ïSBN 9781501742088 () | ïSBN 9781501742095 (éû/ôî) | ïSBN 9781501742071 (çô : à. àé) Sûjéçŝ: CSH: Bûŝîéŝŝ éûçàîô—Uîé Sàéŝ—Hîŝô. | Bûŝîéŝŝ Sçôôŝ—Uîé Sàéŝ—Hîŝô. | Màŝé ô ûŝîéŝŝ àîîŝàîô Dééé—Uîé Sàéŝ—Hîŝô. Càŝŝîiçàîô: CC HF1131 (éôô) | CC HF1131 .J694 2019 (î) | DDC 650.071/173—ç23 C éçô ààîàé à ŝ://çç.ôç.ô/2019006302

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ïôûçîô: Té Béàŝ Tà Aé Càûŝ

1. Té Wô éôé (à Sô àé) Wàô: Géî à Bûŝîéŝŝ Eûçàîô î é Nîééé Céû

2. Téàç é Cîé . . . Wà Bûŝîéŝŝ Sçôôŝ à Téî Cûîçûà Côûŝîôŝ

3. Dîŝà Sçîéçé éŝûŝ Aîé Eçôôîçŝ: Té Uà Réàîôŝî ééé Bûŝîéŝŝ Sçôôŝ à Eçôôîçŝ Déàéŝ

4. ï’ŝ à Wîé Mà’ŝ Wô: Wôé à Aîçà Aéîçàŝ î Bûŝîéŝŝ Sçôôŝ

5. Gôô î à Cîŝîŝ Hô Bûŝîéŝŝ Sçôôŝ Réŝôé ô Eçôôîç Dôûŝ—ô Dî’

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6. Sàé àŝ ï Eé Wàŝ: Hô Bûŝîéŝŝ Sçôôŝ Héé Céàé é Né Gîé Aé

Açôééŝ Nôéŝ Bîîôà ïé

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