Bibliography on Management Education from Carter's MBA: The First Century

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.]
BUS and DBW 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.] BUS 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.]
BUS 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.] BUS 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.] BUS 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."] BUS 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.] BUS 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.] LAW/BUS/DBW 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