Stevens Memorial Library (North Andover)

The golden passport, Harvard Business School, the limits of capitalism, and the moral failure of the MBA elite, Duff McDonald

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages [583]-626) and index

index present

non fiction

The golden passport

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Duff McDonald

Harvard Business School, the limits of capitalism, and the moral failure of the MBA elite

The experimenters: Charles Eliot and Abbott Lawrence Lowell -- A search for mission and method: Edwin Gay -- The "scientist": Frederick W. Taylor -- The first decade: 1910-1919 -- The case for the case method -- The idealist: Wallace Brett Donham -- The benefactors: George Baker, Sr. and Jr. -- Doctor who?: Elton Mayo -- A decade in review: 1920-1929 -- The first broadside: Abraham Flexner -- Friends in high places -- The marriage of moral authority and managerial control -- The venture capitalist: Georges Doriot -- A decade in review: 1930-1939 -- The West Point of capitalism -- The darling of the business elite: Donald David -- From the "retreads" to the crème de la crème -- Temporary support of the workingman -- The class the dollars fell on: the '49ers -- A decade in review: 1940-1949 -- Organization man and the corporate cocoon -- The power elite -- The hidden hand -- The specialists: Robert Schlaifer and Howard Raiffa -- The philanthropist: Henry Ford II -- Spreading the gospel -- Gentlemen (and a few ladies) -- The legitimizer: Alfred Chandler -- A decade in review: 1950-1959 -- Peak influence -- The good, the bad, and the ugly -- The case against the case method -- A decade in review: 1960-1969 -- The myth of the well-educated manager -- Harvard Business Review: origins, heyday, and scandal -- Can leaders be manufactured? -- Can entrepreneurship be learned? -- The second broadside: Derek Bok -- Managing our way to economic decline -- A decade in review: 1970-1979 -- The subversive nature of a social conscience -- The murder of managerialism -- Managerialism was already dead -- The kindergarten class play -- Monetizing it -- The monopolist: Michael Porter -- Self-interest, with a side dish of ethics -- Life out of balance -- A decade in review: 1980-1989 -- The money mill -- The thorn in their side -- A decade in review: 1990-1999 -- The Microsoft of business schools -- The men who would be president -- The shame: Jeff Skilling -- The high art of self-congratulation -- The loyalty program -- The CEO pay gap -- A decade in review: 2000-2009 -- The next generation -- Nitin Nohria for president -- Epilogue: Can HBS lead the way forward?