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

by Steven Conn

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501742078
• ISBN13: 9781501742071
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher