Business Schools & Management Education: A Bibliography

Business Schools & Management Education: A Bibliography

This bibliography is under construction. It was begun initially because of the difficulty one experiences in trying to locate books about business schools (the university variety). Therefore, the first portion consists of works about individual schools that have been located in the collection of the Western Libraries. The second part provides the bibliography found at the end of MBA: The First Century, by Carter A. Daniel. More entries will be added.

Part One: Individual Business Schools : Canadian | American | European

Canadian:
(presented alphabetically by university).

Banff School of Advanced Management
(Although not a 'university business school' per se, the Banff School is affiliated with some Canadian universities. Archival material is found at the Banff Centre and in the University of Alberta Archives)

Gupta, Ashis & Vernon Jones. "From the Arts to Executive Education: The Founding of the Banff School of Advanced Managment," "Business History Section," Proceedings of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada, Vol.22, No.24, 200.

Leighton, David & Peggy Leighton. Artists, Builders and Dreamers: 50 Years at the Banff School, DBWSTK NX407.C3B36 1982
See especially, Chapter 16: "The Newest Profession,", p.115.

Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales de Montreal
Harvey, Pierre, "The Founding of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales de Montreal," in Capitalizing Knowledge: Essays on the History of Business Education in Canada, ed. by Barbara Austin., p.87. HF1131.C458.

Humber Business School
Fournier,Lori and Don Wheeler
Building business : a history of the Business School at Humber ( LE3.H85F68 2004 )

Queen's University
Daub, Mervin Getting Down to Business: A History of Business Education at Queen's, 1889-1999 ( HF1134.Q4D38 1999)

Daub, Mervin and Buchan, Bruce, "Business Education at Queen's, 1889-1988," in Capitalizing Knowledge: Essays on the History of Business Education in Canada, ed. by Barbara Austin., p.101.  HF1131.C458.

Saint Mary's University
Ogden, Harold and Driscoll, Cathy, "Business Studies at Saint Mary's University: Progress with a Human Touch," in Capitalizing Knowledge: Essays on the History of Business Education in Canada, ed. by Barbara Austin., p.239.
HF1131.C458.

University of Calgary
Jones, Vernon and Lane, George, "Development by Design: A History of the Faculty of Management at the University of Calgary, 1967-1991," in Capitalizing Knowledge: Essays on the History of Business Education in Canada, ed. by Barbara Austin., p.209.  HF1131.C458.

University of Toronto
Sawyer, John, "From Commerce to Management: The Evolution of Business Education at the University of Toronto," in Capitalizing Knowledge: Essays on the History of Business Education in Canada, ed. by Barbara Austin., p.146.
HF1131.C458.

University of Western Ontario
Learning to Lead: In Celebration of Seven Decades of Business Education at Western, 1923-93 ( LE3.W522L43 1993)

Zhang, Jiping
The Building and the Operation of a Business School ( HF1134.U55Z52 1987)

Wilfrid Laurier University
Ellis, Robert and McCutcheon, John, "The Evolution of Management Education in a Small Canadian University: The School of Business and Economics of Wilfrid Laurier University," in Capitalizing Knowledge: Essays on the History of Business Education in Canada, ed. by Barbara Austin., p.188.  HF1131.C458.

York University
Gillies, James and Dickinson, Colin, "From the Faculty of Administrative Studies to the Schulich School of Business: The Origin and Evolution of Professional Education for Managers at York University," in Capitalizing Knowledge: Essays on the History of Business Education in Canada, ed. by Barbara Austin., p.167.  HF1131.C458.

For reviews of Capitalizing Knowledge... which figures heavily in the citations above see: the Business History Review, Vol.77, No.1, Spring 2003, p.171, by Ben Forster and Business History, Vol.45, No.3, July 2003, p.144, by Douglas McCalla.
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American:
(presented alphabetically by the name of the school)

Amos Tuck School of Business Administration
Broehl, Wayne
Tuck and Tucker: The Origin of the Graduate Business School ( HF 1134.A74B76 1999)

Bernard M. Baruch College
Berrol, Selma
Getting Down to Business: Baruch College in the City of New York (DBW HF 1134.B36B47 1989)

Columbia University
Senkier, Robert
Revising a Business Curriculum: The Columbia Experience; a Case History of the Development of a New Master of Business Administration Curriculum ( HF 1134.C6S4)

Van Metre, Thurman
History of the Graduate School of Business ( HF 1134.C65V35)

Harvard University
Cohen, Peter
The Gospel According to the Harvard Business School ( HF 1134.H4C58)

Copeland, Melvin
And Mark an Era: The Story of the Harvard Business School ( HF 1134.H4C6)

Cruikshank, Jeffrey
A Delicate Experiment: The Harvard Business School, 1908-1945 ( HF 1134.H4C78 1987)

Ewing, David
Inside the Harvard Business School: Strategies and Lessons of America's Leading School of Business
(HF 1134.H4E95 1990)

Gallese, Liz
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 ( HF 1134.H4G35 1985)

Harvard University
Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration Doctoral Program: Degrees Awarded Since 1928
( HF 1134.H363 1982)

Henry, Fran
Toughing it Out at Harvard: The Making of a Woman MBA ( HF 1134.H4H46 1983)

Kelly, Francis
What They Really Teach You at the Harvard Business School ( HF 1134.H4K45 1986)

Mark, J. Paul
The Empire Builders: Inside the Harvard Business School ( HF 1134.H4M37 1987)

McCraw, Thomas and Cruikshank, Jeffrey Eds.
The Intellectual Venture Capitalist: John H. McArthur and the Work of the Harvard Business School, 1980-1995
( HF 1134.H4I58 1999)

Orth, Charles
Social Structure and Learning Climate: The First Year at the Harvard Business School ( HF 1134.H4O7 1963)

Reid, Robert
Year One: An Intimate Look Into Harvard Business School ( HF 1134.H4R45 1994)

Shames, Laurence
The Big Time: The Harvard Business School's Most Successful Class and How it Shaped America ( HF 1134.H4S5 1986)

J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management
Sedlak, Michael & Harold M. Williamson.
The Evolution of Management Education: A History of the Northwestern University J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, 1908-1983. ( HD30.U42.U5S42 1983)

Leonard N. Stern School of Business
Gitlow, Abraham
New York University's Stern School of Business: A Centennial Retrospective ( HF 1134.S79G58 1995)

Texas Schools of Business Administration
Armstrong, Donald R. Texas Schools of Business Administration.
HF1131.A83 1978
This work presents "every Texas senior college and university currently offering business-related programs of study leading to the baccaluareate degree. Information about each school includes the number of business-related courses offered and the degrees, majors and options which are available. Statistical data include the student/faculty ratio , the percent of total faculty holding the doctoral degree, the number of faculty members with business-related departments and the percent holding the doctoral degree, the mean average SAT or ACT scores of entering freshmen, the percent of freshmen that drop out during the freshman year and the percent that graduate, the percent of graduate students continuing in graduate or professional studies, and the approximate total cost of attending each school for a full academic year." Over 50 schools are listed, beginning with Abilene Christian and ending with Wiley College.

University of Kansas
Stockton, Frank
Four Chapters in the History of the School of Business ( HF 1134.K35S76 1964)

University of North Carolina
Campbell, Walter
Across Fortune's Tracks: A Biography of William Rand Kenan, Jr. ( HC 102.5.K457C35 1996)
This book is not strictly about the business school at the University of North Carolina, but it provides considerable detail about Kenan, for whom the school is named, and his relationship with the University.

Weatherhead School of Management
Boyatzis, Richard; Cowen, Scott; Kolb, David
Innovation in Professional Education: Steps on a Journey from Teaching to Learning
( LC1059.B69 1995)

Wharton School
Sass, Stephen
The Pragmatic Imagination: A History of the Wharton School, 1881-1981.
(DBWSTK HG1134.P46S27 1982)
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European

Barsoux, Jean-Louis
INSEAD: From Intuition to Institution ( HF 1145.B37 2000)

London Business School
Barnes, William
Managerial Catalyst: The Story of London Business School, 1964-1989 ( HF 1142.L8B37 1989)

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Part Two: Management Education - General:

The book list below was taken from Carter Daniel's MBA: The First Century. The bibliography presented here is not complete and consists only of the items that are available in the Western Libraries. The annotations are by Daniels.

Behrman, Jack N., and Richard I. Levin. "Are Business Schools Doing Their Job?" Harvard Business Review 62 (January-February 1984): 140-47. [Powerful plea for business schools to break from their previous research-dominated mold.]

Chandler, Alfred D. The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 1977. [The rise of the concept of "management," with observations on the training it requires.]
HF 5343.C584

Copeland, Melvin T. And Mark an Era: The Story of the Harvard Business School. Boston: Little, Brown, 1958. [The first history of HBS, by one of its earliest faculty members.]  HF 1134.H4C6

Cruikshank, Jeffrey L. A Delicate Experiment. Boston: Harvard Business School Pree, 1987. [A beautifully illustrated, fascinating, and immensely informative history of the Harvard Business School from the beginnings to World War II.]
HF 1134.H4C78

Donham, Wallace B. "The Failure of Business Leadership and the Responsibility of the Universities." Harvard Business Review 11 (July 1933), 418-35. [A deep and thought-provoking analyss of business's rise in prominence and its consequent duties to society.]

Drucker, Peter F. "The Graduate Business School." Fortune 42 (August 1950): 92-116. [Trenchant and generally favorable, views by the famous management authority, at the time when the MBA was beginning its ascent.]

Flexner, Abraham. Universities: American, English, German. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1930. [A classicist;s denunication of the rise of business studies in college.] RDL LA 183.F6 1968

Gordon, Robert A. and James E. Howell. Higher Education for Business. New York: Columbia University Press, 1959. [One of the two infamous "foundation reports." See chapter 9.]  HF 1131.G6

Hayes, Robert H. and William J. Abernethy. "Managing Our Way to Economic Decline." Harvard Business Review 58 (July-August 1980): 67-77. [One of the most influential articles of the past two decades. The failures of business education is seen as a main reason for America's loss of competitiveness.]

Marshall, Leon C. The Collegiate School of Business. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1928. [A collection of writings about business education, already somewhat outdated at the time but still interesting.] DBW HF 1108.M3

Marshall, Leon C. "The College of Commerce and Administration at the University of Chicago." Journal of Political Economy 21 (February 1913): 97-110. [Description of a curriculum that reflected a heavy sense of the social responsibility of business - a social scientist's early efforts to steer business education away from mere profit-making.]

Marshall, Leon C. "The Collegiate School of Business at Erewhon." Journal of Political Economy 34 (June 1926): 289-326. [An attempt to design a perfect business school - notable mainly because it shows how tradition-bound the early theorists were and how little they were able to formulate new concepts.]

McGill, Michael. American Business and the Quick Fix. New York: Holt 1988. [A joyful romp through fads and fancies of the 1970s and 1980s.]  HD 70.U5M35 1998

Nations, L. J. "Business Before Culture: College Becomes an Institution of Higher Earnings." North American Review 229 (January 1930), 705-12. [An economist's apprehensive look at the rise of collegiate business studies.]

Pierson, Frank C. The Education of American Businessmen. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1959. [One of two infamous "foundation reports."]  HF 1131.P62

Porter, Lyman W., and Lawrence E. McKibbon. Management Education and Development: Drift or Thrust into the 21st Century? New York: McGraw-Hill, 1988. [Despite the publicity that accompanied its publication, a rather bland rehashing of old issues surrounding management education.]  HD 30.42.U5P67 1988

Rickover, Hyman G. "Getting the Job Done Right." New York Times, 25 November 1981, 23. [Stern denunciation of the idea that "management science" even exists.]

Ridgeway, James. The Closed Corporation: American Universities in Crisis. New York: Random House, 1968. [Investigative journalism exposing the close links between universities and government, especially with reference to the Vietnam War.] LB 2342.R5

Sass, Steven A. The Pragmatic Imagination. Philadelphia: University of PEnnsylvania Press, 1982. [A fine history of the pioneering Wharton School.] DBW HG 1134.P46S27 1982

Stone, Arlington J. [Pseud. for H.L. Mencken]. "The Dawn of A New Science." American Mercury 14 (August 1928): 446-55. [Riotously funny denunciation of education for business.]

Veblen, Thorstein. The Higher Learning in America (1918). New York: Sigamore Press, 1957. [A classicist's denunciation of business education. Cranky and enjoyable, but not influential.] DBW and RDL LA 226.V4