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The Renaissance We Need in Business Education

Harvard Business Review

The earliest business schools sought to provide the tools and teach the skills required to become a successful business person at the time, like bookkeeping, efficient manufacturing, and contract law. The scientific management emphasis on efficiency and profit at all costs can no longer take precedence over human values.

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Business Does Not Need the Humanities — But Humans Do

Harvard Business Review

Drucker Forum 2018 This article is one in a series related to the 10th Global Peter Drucker Forum , with the theme “ Management. Drawing on a lifetime in business—as an economist, oil executive, and management professor—the charismatic octogenarian cut a startling figure.

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The Renaissance We Need in Business Education

Harvard Business Review

The early business schools sought to provide the tools and teach the skills required to become a successful business person at the time, like bookkeeping, efficient manufacturing, and contract law. The scientific management emphasis on efficiency and profit at all costs can no longer take precedence over human values.