Screen LibraryThe golden passport : Harvard Business School, the limits of capitalism, and the moral failure of the MBA elite /
"With The Firm, financial journalist Duff McDonald pulled back the curtain on consulting giant McKinsey and Company. In The Golden Passport, he reveals the inner works of a singular nexus of power, ambition, and influence: Harvard Business School. Harvard University still occupies a unique plac...
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Harper Business, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: | [2017] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First edition. |
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"With The Firm, financial journalist Duff McDonald pulled back the curtain on consulting giant McKinsey and Company. In The Golden Passport, he reveals the inner works of a singular nexus of power, ambition, and influence: Harvard Business School. Harvard University still occupies a unique place in the public's imagination, but the Harvard Business School eclipsed its parent in terms of influence on modern society long ago. A Harvard degree guarantees respect. But a Harvard MBA near-guarantees entrance into Western capitalism's most powerful realm - the corner office. And because the School |
| Carrier Form: | ix, 657 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780062347176 0062347179 |
| Index Number: | HF1134 |
| CLC: |
F270-05 G649.712.8 |
| Call Number: | G649.712.8/M135-1 |
| Contents: | 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 |