Education & Learning

1881 - American entrepreneur and industrialist Joseph Wharton proposed the idea in the history of business: establishment of the world's first collegiate school of business at the University of Pennsylvania for the scientific study od business and preparation of business leaders; Wharton: mineral ore industry entrepreneur (iron, zinc, and nickel), controlled Bethlehem Iron Company (predecessor to Bethlehem Steel), Manager of Swarthmore College for over 35 years. School created first business textbooks, named Albert S. Bolles as first business professor. Edmund James, early Wharton faculty member and school's first director, was founder of American Economic Association; became the first academic institution to develop administrative services in career management and academic advising.

1881 - Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCIP, quasi-public agency representing all businesses whose head offices are located in the Paris region) created Hautes Etudes Commerciales as an Ecole de Commerce to serve as an academic institution in the Baron Haussmann area. The goal at the time was to impart students with practical fundamentals in international business and to prepare them for the rise in importance of science, industry and the financial market; 1963 - created dedicated, permanent and internationally trained faculty, a true team of management professors attached to the school; 1969 - created HEC MBA program (ISA: Institut Supérieur des Affaires); 1973 - created Program in International Management (PIM) program with New York University and the London Business School (first agreement in world to involve international exchanges between business schools); 1985 - only French business school, accredited by the French Ministry of Education, to grant, alone, Ph.D. in management; 1988 - Creation of Community of European Management Schools CEMS) to create a standard for excellence in European management (17 of Europe’s most highly regarded business schools joined with more than 50 international companies to shape Europe’s management education by defining a European curriculum); 1989 - name changed to HEC school of Management.

1898 - University of Chicago founded The College of Commerce and Politics to offer practical business instruction; 1916 - first comprehensive business curriculum developed; 1920 - first school to initiate PhD program in business; 1922 - first doctoral program in business offered; 1929 - first university to grant a PhD in business to a woman, Ursula Batchelder Stone; 1933 - first program to educate hospital administrators; 1935 - business student Jay Berwanger wins the first Heisman Trophy; 1943 - first school to offer Executive MBA program for experienced managers; 1960 - James Lorie and Lawrence Fischer establish Center for Research in Securities Prices, enabled rigorous empirical analysis of stock prices and investment theories; 1982 - first business school to have a Nobel laureate on faculty (George Stigler received Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences).

September 13, 1898 - Arthur Rodgers (1872 graduate of the College of Agriculture), with financial support of Cora Jane Flood (largest private contribution in university’s then 30-year history - residence, tract of about 550 acres near Menlo Park, half interest in 2,400 acres of adjacent marsh land, four-fifths of capital stock of Bear Creek Water Company), established College of Commerce at University of California at Berkeley; nation’s first college of commerce at public university; focused on commercial opportunities in international, entrepreneurial arenas; Carl Copping Plehn (finance professor educated in Germany) appointed college’s first dean; 1986 - renamed Haas School of Business (after Walter A. Haas Sr., former president of Levi Strauss & Co.).

January 19, 1900 - Dartmouth College Trustees authorized establishment of Amos Tuck School of Administration and Finance; Edward Tuck donated $300,000 worth of stock in Great Northern Railway Company of Minnesota to found school led by Secretary Frank Dixon; 1901 - Edward Tuck donated $100,000 to build home for school; 1916 - Tuck accredited by American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB); 1942 - name changed to Amos Tuck School of Business Administration; 1953 - Tuck degree changed from Master of Commercial Science (MCS) to Master of Business Administration (MBA); 1964 - accepted Herbert Kemp T'66, first minority student; 1968 - accepted Martha Fransson T'70, first female student.

1907 - Institut Sainte Geneviève founded Institut des Sciences Economiques et Commerciales (Institute of Economic and Commercial Sciences) - ESSEC - to infuse moral values and promote ethics and humanism into business world by training future senior executives; 1963 - 64% of students studied law alongside foreign languages, history of commerce, commercial geography, political economy, law courses; 1967 - opened  program at second-year level to students with university degrees in engineering, medicine, law, political science; created first "junior company" in France; 1969 - welcomed first women students; 1973 - enabled students to choose courses according to their career goals; exchange forum between students and companies; 1986 - created first specialized academic Chair; 1993 - pioneered acceptance of students majoring in literature; 1997 - first school outside North America to win AACSB accreditation.

1908 - President Charles W. Eliot requested that the Corporation of Harvard University establish a school of business administration; October 1, 1908 - Edwin F. Gay was appointed the first dean, and HBS opened with a faculty of 15, a course of study, 33 regular students, and 47 special students; 1911 - Bureau of Business Research was established to undertake the first organized research in the field of business administration; "problem" method, the predecessor to the case method, was introduced to classroom as businessmen were invited to present real problems to students; 1922 - Doctoral Program established; Harvard Business Review founded; 1924 - case method established as primary method of instruction; George Fisher Baker, president of the First National Bank of New York, donated $5 million to build a campus for Business School on  Boston side of the Charles River; 1945 - group of sixty executives and recently demobilized veterans enrolled in the School's first executive education program, named the Advanced Management Program (continuation of a wartime retraining course launched in 1943).

1908 - Northwestern University's School of Commerce formed Board of Guarantors to provide part-time evening technical training courses in business to employees of Chicago companies; hired Willard E. Hotchkiss as first Dean; October 1910 - School of Commerce opened; 1912 - faculty, Board of Trustees approved degree program leading to Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.), to coordinate courses in commerce and economics; Professor Arthur Swanson taught school’s first “marketing” course; 1915 - women students accounted for about 6% of School of Commerce student body; June 1915 - Hotchkiss, Walter Dill Scott (Department of Psychology), others created National Association of Teachers of Advertising (NATA; became American Marketing Association);  1917 - annual enrollment exceeded 1,000; 90 diplomas in Commerce awarded in first decade; 1919 - introduced full-time undergraduate day program leading to Bachelor of Science in Commerce; 1920 - launched graduate program leading toward Master of Business Administration degree; drew nearly 400 students in first two years; 1922 - Fred E. Clark published Principles of Marketing -broke marketing into its constituent parts (assembling, grading, storing, transporting, financing, selling); 1926 - established doctoral program (10 students per year until end of World War II); 1937 - annual operating budget of approximately $650,000; enrollment of more than 8,000 full-time, part-time students; among largest, financially successful collegiate business schools in United States; 1942 - School of Commerce changed name of undergraduate program to Bachelor of Science in Business Administration; 1949 - faculty, student body almost entirely male; 1956 - School of Commerce became School of Business Administration, Graduate Commerce Division became Graduate School of Business Administration; 1962 - Professor Philip Kotler joined school's esteemed Marketing Department; 1966 - MBA program admitted women for first time; 1969 - School of Business named Graduate School of Management; MBA renamed Masters of Management (MM) degree; 1979 - John L. and Helen Kellogg Foundation (son of Will Keith Kellogg, 1/3 owner of Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Co. incorporated in February 1906) donated $10 million to school; Graduate School of Management renamed J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management; 2002 - London-based Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) ranked Kellogg’s MBA program as best in world for three consecutive years.

February 7, 1916 - Trustees of Columbia University formally authorized creation of a School of Business; James C, Egbert, classics scholar and 1881 graduate of Columbia College named first director; tuition - approximately $24 per year; 1924 - offered BS, MS, PhD degrees; 1945 - established MBA degree, changed name to Graduate School of Business.

September 1924 - Herbert Hoover and friends assembled 125 Pacific Coast business leaders who agreed to raise the funds to support new graduate school of business on the West Coast; hoped to halt the trend of bright students going east to get a degree; Fall 1925 - Graduate School of Business opened; 1926 - Willard Hotchkiss first dean of Stanford Business School (had organized business schools at the University of Minnesota and Northwestern University); June 1931 - Business School had awarded 62 MBA degrees and one doctorate; 1933 - Business School's first library opened with 7,000 books.

March 2006 - Private investors Henry Kravis, Russell Carson and Arthur Samberg pledged $45 million to Columbia Business School in New York to boost its curriculum and faculty; Kravis and Samberg graduated from Columbia in 1969; Carson received his MBA in 1967.

August 1, 2006 - Philip H. Knight (Stanford Business School class of 1962), founder (1972) and chairman of Nike, pledged $105 million to Stanford Business School for a new campus to be called the Knight Management Center; largest single donation to an American business school; 2004 - Stephen M. Ross, New York real estate developer, gave $100 million to University of Michigan, his alma mater, for the Ross School of Business.

April 27, 2008 - What matters to MBA students:

(Baruch), Selma C. Berrol (1989). Getting Down to Business: Baruch College in the City of New York, 1847-1987. (New York, NY: Greenwood Press, 267 p.). Bernard M. Baruch College--History; Business schools--New York (State)--New York--History.

(Cass Business School), Allan P.O. Williams (2006). The Rise of Cass Business School: The Journey to World-Class: 1966 Onwards. (New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 256 p.). Sir John Cass Business School--History; Business schools--England--London--History; Business education--England--London--History. Part of City University in the UK. Rise through the ranks of business schools; themes, factors affecting rise.

(Columbia University Graduate Business School), Thurman William Van Metre (1954). A History of the Graduate School of Business, Columbia University. (New York, NY: Coulumbia University Press, 124 p.). Columbia University. Graduate School of Business.

(Columbia University Graduate Business School), Courtney C. Brown (1983). The Dean Meant Business. (New York, NY: Graduate School of Business, Columbia University, 278 p.). Brown, Courtney C., 1904- ; Columbia University. Graduate School of Business; Business teachers--New York (State)--New York--Biography.

(HBS), Melvin T. Copeland (1958). And Mark an Era: The Story of the Harvard Business School. (Boston, MA: Little, Brown, 368 p.). Harvard University. Graduate School of Business Administration--History; Business schools--Massachusetts--History.

(HBS), Charles D. Orth, 3rd (1963). Social Structure and Learning Climate; The First Year at the Harvard Business School. (Boston, MA: Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration, 236 p.). Harvard University. Graduate School of Business Administration.

(HBS), Herbert Heaton (1968). A Scholar in Action, Edwin F. Gay. (New York, NY: Greenwood Press, 260 p. [orig. pub. 1952]). Gay, Edwin Francis, 1867-1946. 

(HBS), Peter Cohen (1973). The Gospel According to the Harvard Business School. (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 331 p.). Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration, Business Education.

(HBS), Fran Worden Henry (1983). Toughing It Out at Harvard: The Making of a Woman MBA. (New York, NY: Putnam, 253 p.). Henry, Fran Worden; Harvard University. Graduate School of Business Administration--Biography; Master of business administration degree--United States.

(HBS), Liz Roman Gallese (1985). Women Like Us: What Is Happening to the Women of the Harvard Business School, Class of '75--the Women Who Had the First Chance to Make It to the Top. (New York, NY: Morrow, 252 p.). Harvard University. Graduate School of Business Administration; Master of business administration degree--United States; Women executives--United States.

(HBS), Francis J. Kelly and Heather Mayfield Kelly (1986). What They Really Teach You at the Harvard Business School. (New York, NY: Warner Books, 260 p.). Harvard University. Graduate School of Business Administration.

(HBS), Laurence Shames (1986). The Big Time : The Harvard Business School's Most Successful Class and How It Shaped America. (New York, NY: Harper&Row, 226 p.). Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration-Class of '49.

(HBS), Jeffrey L. Cruikshank ; foreword by John H. McArthur (1987). A Delicate Experiment: The Harvard Business School, 1908-1945. (Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 303 p.). Harvard University. Graduate School of Business Administration--History.

(HBS), J. Paul Mark (1987). The Empire Builders: Inside the Harvard Business School. (New York, NY: Morrow, 303 p.). Harvard University. Graduate School of Business Administration.

(HBS), David W. Ewing (1990). Inside the Harvard Business School: Strategies and Lessons of America's Leading School of Business. (New York, NY: Times Books, 292 p.). Harvard University. Graduate School of Business Administration--Curricula; Harvard University. Graduate School of Business Administration--Alumni and alumnae--Interviews.

(HBS), Robert Reid (1994). Year One: An Intimate Look Inside Harvard Business School, Source of the Most Coveted Advanced Degree in the World. (New York, NY: Morrow, 331 p.). Reid, Robert, 1965- ; Harvard University. Graduate School of Business Administration; Harvard University. Graduate School of Business Administration--Students--Biography.

(HBS), edited by Thomas K. McCrae and Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (1999). The Intellectual Venture Capitalist: John H. McArthur and the Work of the Harvard Business School, 1980-1995. (Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 353 p.). McArthur, John H.; McArthur, John H.--Contributions to business education; Harvard University. Graduate School of Business Administration; Harvard Business School; Deans (Education)--United States.

(HBS), Mark Stevens (2001). Extreme Management: What They Teach at Harvard's Advanced Management Program. (New York, NY: Warner Books, 184 p.). Harvard Business School; Executives--Training of--United States; Management--Study and teaching--United States.

(HBS), David Callahan (2002). Kindred Spirits: Harvard Business School's Extraordinary Class of 1949 and How They Transformed American Business. (New York, NY: Wiley, 296 p.). Co-Founder, Demos (public policy research firm). Harvard University. Graduate School of Business Administration. Class of 1949--Biography; Harvard University. Graduate School of Business Administration--Alumni and alumnae--Biography; Businesspeople--United States--Biography. 

(HBS), Monique Maddy (2004). Learning To Love Africa: My Journey from Africa to Harvard Business School and Back. (New York, NY: HarperBusiness, 358 p.). Maddy, Monique; Businesswomen Tanzania Biography; New business enterprises Tanzania; Entrepreneurship Tanzania. 

(HBS), The Staff of the Harbus, Harvard Business School Student Newspaper (2004). 65 Successful Harvard Business School Application Essays: With Analysis by the Staff of the Harbus, The Harvard Business School Newspaper. (New York, NY: St. Martin's Griffin, 224 p.). Harvard Business School; Business schools United States Admission; Exposition (Rhetoric); Essay Authorship; Business writing.

(HBS), Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (2005). Shaping the Waves: A History of Entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School. (Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Pub., 371 p.). Harvard Business School--Curricula; Entrepreneurship--Study and teaching (Graduate)--United States; Industrial management--Study and teaching (Graduate)--United States.

(Harvard Business School), Philip Delves Broughton (2008). The Curve: Two Years at Harvard Business School. (New York, NY: Penguin Press, 304 p.). Former New York and Paris bureau chief (Daily Telegraph of London). Harvard Business School; Business education --Massachusetts; Business students --Massachusetts; Management --Study and teaching (Higher) --Massachusetts. 2004 - left as Paris bureau chief of London Daily Telegraph, joined 900 others at Harvard Business School; studied more than 500 cases; surprising pleasures of accounting, allure of "beta," ingenious chicanery of leveraging, workings of business world; less savory trappings; assessment of school’s success at teaching traits it extols as most important in business.

(HEC), Marc Meuleau (1981). Histoire d'une grande école: HEC 100, 1881-1981. (Paris, FR: Dunod, 190 p.). Ecole des hautes études commerciales (France)--History; Economics--Study and teaching (Higher)--France--History.

(HEC), Marc Nouschi (1988). Histoire et Pouvoir d'une Grande Ecole: HEC. (Paris, FR: R. Laffont, 300 p.). Ecole des hautes études commerciales (France)--History; Economics--Study and teaching--France--History; Business schools--France--History.

(HEC), Patricia Defever, Tristan Gaston-Breton (2007). HEC: L’Excellence Europeenne, un Rayonnement Mondial. (Paris, FR: Cherche Midi, 139 p.). Ecole des hautes études commerciales (France)--History; Economics--Study and teaching--France--History; Business schools--France--History.

(Insead), Jean-Louis Barsoux (2000). Insead: From Intuition to Institution. (New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 249 p.). Insead--History; Business schools--France--History.

(Kellogg School - Northwestern, founded 1908), Michael J. Sedlak and Harold F. Williamson (1983). The Evolution of Management Education : A History of the Northwestern University J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, 1908-1983. (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 202 p.). J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management-History.

(Kellogg School), Matt Golosinski (2008). Wide Awake in the Windy City: Celebrating a Century of Excellence at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, 1908-2008. (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 378 p.). Assistant Dean and Chief Marketing Officer of the Kellogg School. Kellogg School of Management --History; Business schools --Illinois --History. Century-long ascent of Kellogg School of Management; its influence on marketing, evolution as globally renowned general management force; school's strategic decisions, some of most important catalysts — deans, professors, students, business practitioners.

(L'Oreal), François Dalle, Jean Bounine (1993). L'Education en Entreprise: Contre le Chômage des Jeunes. (Paris, FR: Editions Odile Jacob, 282 p.). CEO of L'Oreal (1957-1984). Career education--France; Professional education--France; Business and education--France.

(LSE), Lord Beveridge (1960). The London School of Economics and Its Problems, 1919-1937. (London, UK: Allen & Unwin, 138 p.). London School of Economics and Political Science.

(LSE), Sir Sydney Caine (1963). The History of the Foundation of the London School of Economics and Political Science. (London, UK: London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London, 103 p.). London School of Economics and Political Science.

(LSE), Paul Hoch & Vic Schoenbach (1969). L.S.E.: The Natives Are Restless: A Report on Student Power in Action. (London, UK: Sheed & Ward, 212 p.). London School of Economics and Political Science--Students; Student-administrator relationships--England--London.

(LSE), Harry Kidd (1969). The Trouble at L.S.E., 1966-1967. (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 199 p.). London School of Economics and Political Science--Students; Student-administrator relationships--England--London.

(LSE), Ralf Dahrendorf (1995). LSE: A History of the London School of Economics and Political Science, 1895-1995. (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 584 p.). Former Director, London School of Economics and Politics (1974-1984). London School of Economics and Political Science--History. 

(LSE), I.G. Patel (2004). An Encounter with Higher Education: My Years at LSE. (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 216 p.). Former Director, London School of Economics and Politics (1984-1990); Former Governor, Reserve Bank of India. Patel, I. G. (Indraprasad Gordhanbhai), 1924- ; London School of Economics and Political Science; Education, Higher--Great Britain--History--20th century; Universities and colleges--England--London--History--20th century.

(Malaysian Institute of Management), D.J.M. Tate (1991). Malaysian Management: The Story of the Malaysian Institute of Management. (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: The Institute, 116 p.). Malaysian Institute of Management--History; Management--Study and teaching (Higher)--Malaysia--History.

(Manchester Business School), John F. Wilson (1992). The Manchester Experiment: A History of Manchester Business School, 1965-1990. (London, UK: Paul Chapman Pub., 153 p.). Manchester Business School (University of Manchester)--History; Business education--England--Manchester--History; Management--Study and teaching--England--Manchester--History.

(MIT), Henry Etzkowitz (2002). MIT and the Rise of Entrepreneurial Science. (New York, NY: Routledge, 173 p.). Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Business and education --United States. University's expanded role in society involving economic, social development, teaching and research; how ground-breaking university-industry-government interactions have become one of foundations of modern successful economies.

(NYU Stern School), Abraham L. Gitlow (1995). New York University's Stern School of Business: A Centennial Retrospective. (New York, NY: New York University Press, 307 p.). Leonard N. Stern School of Business; Business schools -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.

(Queen’s University (Kingston, ON) School of Business), Mervin Daub and P. Bruce Buchan (1999). Getting Down to Business: A History of Business Education at Queen’s, 1889-1999. (Montreal, QU: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 129 p.). Queen’s University (Kingston, Ont.). School of Business--History.

(Stanford), Peter Robinson (1994). Snapshots from Hell: The Making of an MBA. (New York, NY: Warner Books, 286 p.). Robinson, Peter, 1957- ; Stanford University. Graduate School of Business; Business students--California--Stanford--Biography.

(Tours), Doug Gelbert (1994). Company Museums, Industry Museums, and Industrial Tours: A Guidebook of Sites in the United States That Are Open to the Public. (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 314 p.). Industrial museums--United States--Guidebooks.

(Tours), Karen Axelrod and Bruce Brumberg; foreword by Richard S. Gurin (1997). Watch It Made in the U.S.A.: A Visitor's Guide to the Companies That Make Your Favorite Products. (Santa Fe, NM: John Muir Publications, 366 p. [2nd ed.]). Industries--United States--Directories; Manufacturing industries--United States--Directories; Tour guides (Manuals); United States--Tours--Handbooks, manuals, etc. Authors describe tours of almost 250 factories throughout the U. S.

(Tuck Business School), Wayne G. Broehl, Jr. (1999). Tuck & Tucker : The Origin of the Graduate Business School. (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 110 p.). Professor, Tuck Business School (Dartmouth College). Edward Tuck (1842-1938), William J. Tucker (1839-1926), Business Schools.

(Wharton -proposed in 1881), Steven A. Sass (1982). The Pragmatic Imagination: A History of the Wharton School, 1881-1981. (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 351 p.). Wharton School--History.

(Wharton), Nicole Ridgway (2005). The Running of the Bulls: Inside the Cutthroat Race from Wharton to Wall Street. (New York, NY: Gotham Books, 304 p.). Reporter (Forbes). Wharton School; Finance--Vocational guidance--United States.

Ed. Mark Allen (2007). The Next Generation of Corporate Universities: Innovative Approaches for Developing People and Expanding Organizational Capabilities. (San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 432 p.). Director of Executive Education (Pepperdine University). Employer-supported education; Employees--Training of; Organizational learning. Innovative approaches for developing people, expanding organizational capabilities.

Eds. Ilan Alon & John R. McIntyre (2005). Business and Management Education in China. (Hackensack, NJ: World Scientific, 396 p.). Business education--China; Management--Study and teaching--China. Potential and obstacles for business and management education in world's second largest economy.

eds. Rolv Petter Amdam ... [et al.] (2003). Inside the Business Schools: The Content of European Business Education. (Oslo, Norway: Copenhagen Business School Press, 293 p.). Business education--Europe; Business education--Curricula--Europe; Management--Study and teaching--Europe; Business schools--Management--Europe. 

Ed. Barbara J. Austin (2000). Capitalizing Knowledge: Essays on the History of Business Education in Canada. (Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press, 371 p.). Business education -- Canada -- History; Management -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Canada -- History.

Jared L. Bleak (2005). When for-Profit Meets Nonprofit: Educating Through the Market. (New York, NY: Routledge, 179 p.). Education, Higher--Economic aspects--United States; Business and education--United States; For-profit universities and colleges--United States. 

Derek Bok (2003). Universities in the Marketplace: The Commercialization of Higher Education. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 233 p.). Former President, Harvard University; 300th Anniversary University Professor and Faculty Chair of the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations (Harvard). Education, Higher--Economic aspects--United States; Industry and education--United States; Universities and colleges--United States--Sociological aspects. 

David Colander (2007). The Making of an Economist, Redux. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 280 p.). CA Johnson Distinguished Professor of Economics (Middlebury College). Economics--Study and teaching (Graduate)--United States; Economists--United States; Graduate students--United States. What is happening in elite U.S. economics Ph.D. programs; view of cutting-edge economics, glimpse at its likely future; compares economics education today to findings of original book (1990).

Stuart Crainer and Des Dearlove (1999). Gravy Training : Inside the Business of Business Schools. (San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 315 p.). Business Schools, MBA degree.

ed. Dianne Cyr and Blaize Horner Reich; foreword by Denise M. Rousseau (1996). Scaling the Ivory Tower: Stories from Women in Business School Faculties. (Westport, CT: Praeger, 202 p.). Business schools--United States--Faculty; Women college teachers--United States; College teachers--Tenure--United States.

Carter A. Daniel (1998). MBA: The First Century. (Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 330 p.). Master of business administration degree--United States--History; Business education--United States--History; Business schools--United States--History.

Stan Davis and Jim Botkin (1994). The Monster under the Bed: How Business Is Mastering the Opportunity of Knowledge for Profit. (New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 189 p.). Business education; Industry and education; Employees--Training of; Information technology; Continuing education; Competition.

Charles R. DeCarlo and Ormsbee W. Robinson (1966). Education in Business and Industry. (New York, NY: Center for Applied Research in Education, 118 p.). Business education--United States; Employees--Training of.

Eds. Sue Dopson, Michael Earl and Peter Snow (2008). Mapping the Management Journey: Practice, Theory, and Context (Five Decades of Management Studies). (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 325 p). Teaches on University of Oxford's degree program in management; Former Professor of Information Management (London Business School); Industrial management; International business enterprises--Management. Development of discipline of Management Studies, concise guide to specific areas; exploration of range of sectors (private, public professional), specific functions involved in management (Corporate Strategy, Information Technology, Operations Management, Marketing). 

James Engell and Anthony Dangerfield (2005). Saving Higher Education in the Age of Money. (Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 277 p.). Education, Higher--Economic aspects--United States; Commercialism in schools--United States; Universities and colleges--United States--Sociological aspects; Education, Higher--Aims and objectives--United States. 

Terence R. Gourvish and Nick Tiratsoo (1998). Missionaries and Managers: American Influences on European Management Education, 1945-60. (New York, NY: Manchester University Press (distrib. by St. Martin's Press), 165 p.). Management-Study and Teaching-Europe-History.

Daniel S. Greenberg (2007). Science for Sale: The Perils, Rewards, and Delusions of Campus Capitalism. (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 324 p.). Research--United States--Finance; Universities and colleges--United States; Research institutes--Economic aspects--United States; Science--Economic aspects--United States; Federal aid to research--United States. Campus capitalism is more complicated, less profitable, than media reports suggest. From research that has shifted overseas  to conflicts of interest in scientific publishing, temptations of money will always be a threat.

Norio Kambayashi, Masaya Morita, Yoko Okabe (2007). Management Education in Japan. (Oxford, UK: Chandos Publishing, 124 p.). Management -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Japan -- History. Changing nature of education, training system in Japanese firms, recent developments of management education in Japanese universities; whether MBA education system in Japanese business schools is really useful for human resource development in Japanese firms; importance of developments of Japanese-specific methods of management education.

Rakesh Khurana (2007). From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 542 p.). Associate Professor in Organizational Behavior (Harvard Business School). Business education--United States; Business schools--United States; Management--Vocational guidance--United States. Institutional history of U.S. management education. Author argues: 1) business schools have largely capitulated in battle for professionalism, 2) have become purveyors of product, the MBA, with students treated as consumers, 3) professional and moral ideals have been conquered by perspective that managers are merely agents of shareholders, beholden only to cause of profits, 4) should not thus be surprised at rise of corporate malfeasance.

David L. Kirp (2003). Shakespeare, Einstein, and the Bottom Line: The Marketing of Higher Education. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 336 p.). Professor of Public Policy (Berkeley). Universities and colleges--United States--Marketing; Education, Higher--Public relations--United States. 

Arjo Klamer and David Colander (1990). The Making of an Economist. (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 216 p.). Professor in de Economie van Kunst en Cultuur aan (Erasmus Universiteit, Rotterdam); CA Johnson Distinguished Professor of Economics (Middlebury College). Economics--Study and teaching (Graduate)--United States; Economists--United States; Graduate students--United States. Led to a reexamination of graduate education by the profession.

Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Daniel M. G. Raff and Peter Temin (1999). Learning by Doing in Markets, Firms, and Countries. (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 347 p.). Organizational learning--Congresses; Business intelligence--History--Congresses; Business enterprises--History--Case studies--Congresses; Business--History--Congresses.

Robert R. Locke (1989). Management and Higher Education Since 1940: The Influence of America and Japan on West Germany, Great Britain, and France. (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 328 p.). Management -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Germany (West); Management -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- France; Management -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Great Britain; Management -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- United States; Management -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Japan.

ed. Robert R. Locke (1998). Management Education. (Aldershot: Dartmouth: Ashgate, 579 p.). Management--Study and teaching; Business education.

Robert R. Locke and Katja E. Schöne (2004). The Entrepreneurial Shift: Americanization in European High-Technology Management Education. (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 250 p.). Business education -- Europe; Entrepreneurship -- Study and teaching -- Europe; Business -- Technological innovations -- Study and teaching -- Europe; Business education -- France; Business education -- Germany; Business education -- Czech Republic.

Morgan W. McCall, Jr., George P. Hollenbeck (2002). Developing Global Executives: The Lessons of International Experience. (Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 259 p.). Professor of Management (USC). Executives--Training of; Executive ability; Globalization; Industrial management.

Mark H. McCormack (1984). What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School. (New York, NY: Bantam Books, 256 p.). Founder, International Creative Management. Management, Success in Business.

--- (1989). What They Still Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School : More Notes From a Street-Smart Executive. (New York, NY: Bantam Books, 298 p.). Founder, International Creative Management. Management, Success in Business.

Donald E. Mellon (1986). The Role of the Entrepreneur-Educator in Private Business Education in the United States from 1850-1915: A Study in Conditioned Entrepreneurship. (New York, NY: Garland, 501 p.). Business education--United States--History; Entrepreneurship. Series: American business history.

Henry Mintzberg (2004). Managers, not MBAs: A Hard Look at the Soft Practice of Managing and Management Development. (San Francisco, CA: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 464 p.). Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies (McGill University). Executives--Training of; Experiential learning; Active learning; Management--Study and teaching (Graduate); Master of business administration degree; Business education. 

David C. Mowery ... [et al.] (2004). Ivory Tower and Industrial Innovation: University-Industry Technology Transfer Before and After the Bayh-Dole Act in the United States. (Stanford, CA: Stanford Business Books, 241 p.). Milton W. Terrill Professor of Business, Haas School of Business (UC, Berkeley). Technology transfer--United States; Academic-industrial collaboration--United States. 

Ed. Peter Navarro (2005). What the Best MBAs Know: How To Apply the Greatest Ideas Taught in the Best Business Schools. (New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 338 p.). Professor of Business and Economics (University of California-Irvine). Business education; Master of business administration degree. 

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LINKS

Academy of Management                                        http://acm.pace.edu                                                                               A leading professional association of scholars dedicated to creating and disseminating knowledge about management and organizations. The Academy’s central mission is to enhance the profession of management by advancing the scholarship of management and enriching the professional development of its members.

Aspen Institute Center for Business Education’s Teaching Innovation   http://www.aspeninstitute.org/site/c.huLWJeMRKpH/ b.612443/k.8512/Teaching_Innovation_Program.htm                      The Teaching Innovation Program (TIP) is designed to create a tipping point in business education to further the teaching of corporate citizenship and values-based leadership. Through TIP, The Aspen Institute Business and Society Program (Aspen BSP) creates networks of business school faculty and business practitioners from around the world. As part of TIP, teams of business school faculty from participating schools implement pilot projects at their respective institutions, each aimed at assisting individuals and firms in addressing challenges and opportunities in the areas of corporate citizenship, social impact management, corporate social responsibility (CSR), and values-based leadership. The faculty teams, along with corporate representatives, convene several times to identify common opportunities and critical challenges within projects and share knowledge and experiences.

Association for Business Simulation and Experiential Learning http://www.towson.edu/~absel/                                                  ABSEL is a professional association whose purpose is to develop and promote the use of experiential techniques and simulations in the field of business education and development.

Biz/ed: Virtual Learning Arcade http://www.bized.ac.uk/virtual/vla/                                                      A new offering from Biz/ed, the Virtual Learning Arcade uses simulations and interactive online models to help teach concepts related to economics and business. Along with the simulations are a variety of support materials written to help educators take full advantage of the tools provided. Ten simulations are currently available, but the goal of the project is to have twenty eventually. Interested users can sign up for the Biz/ed newsletter to keep up-to-date on the newest VLA releases.

Business Schools.com                     http://www.businessschools.com/                                                   This site is designed to provide detailed information on many different aspects of pursuing an undergraduate or advanced degree in business, along with providing related information on available scholarships and potential career options. Developed as part of the All Schools online network, visitors to the site can search their database of over 1500 schools by state, country, specialty, and educational level. The search engine will return results based on visitors specifications that will contain links to the different schools' respective programs, along with a link to send email to the program directly. The site also has a helpful list of hundreds of financial aid options available to students studying business, along with a glossary and suggested reading for selecting an appropriate program. Finally, the site contains numerous guidance articles written by experts in the field of business education, such as a Yale business school professor and a former Ocean Spray marketing director.

A Daring Experiment: Harvard and Business Education for Women, 1937-1970                         http://www.library.hbs.edu/hc/daring/                                                  1937 - The history of business education for women at Harvard began with a certificate program in personnel administration at Radcliffe College. Called "the first daring experiment in ‘practical education’ for women"1 by Harvard Business School Professor Fritz Roethlisberger, the course eventually evolved into the Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration (HRPBA), jointly managed by Harvard Business School and Radcliffe College.

Management Education and Discussion http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/mg-ed-dv.html             Sharing management learning ideas and content.

Organizational Behavior Teaching Society: Teaching Society for Management Educators                                                             http://www.obts.org                                                                        Dedicated to innovative teaching and learning in the organizational and management sciences. Our members are faculty at universities and colleges throughout the world, as well as business educators and consultants in the profit and non-profit sectors. Mission: "To promote quality teaching and learning across the management disciplines." David L. Bradford Outstanding Educator Award honors one person or a team with consistently demonstrated achievement in teaching and learning over a lifetime or career. Outstanding educators impact the field of management education as a whole, with innovations and ideas often extending to a wider audience