Nothing Succeeds Like Failure: The Sad History of American Business Schools

Do business schools actually make good on their promises of "innovative," "outside-the-box" thinking to train business leaders...
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Author: Steven Conn
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Nothing Succeeds Like Failure: The Sad History of American Business Schools by Conn, Steven

Nothing Succeeds Like Failure: The Sad History of American Business Schools

€49,43

Nothing Succeeds Like Failure: The Sad History of American Business Schools

€49,43
Author: Steven Conn
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

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 façades 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.



Author: Steven Conn
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 10/15/2019
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.30w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9781501742071
Audience: Young Adult


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 06/24/2019
Library Journal 09/01/2019 pg. 80
Choice 02/01/2020

About the Author

Steven Conn is W. E. Smith Professor of History at Miami University. He is author of numerous books, including, most recently, Americans against the City.


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