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