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Business Does Not Need the Humanities — But Humans Do

Harvard Business Review

.” The anecdote was too delicious to ignore, seeming to capture all we (think we) know about Zuckerberg—his casual brilliance, his intense competitiveness, his hyper-rational faith in technology, and the polarizing effect of his compelling software. ” Soon after, Peter Drucker predicted the End of Economic Man.

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The Renaissance We Need in Business Education

Harvard Business Review

Our brick institutions have in no way caught up with what today’s technologies make possible in terms of virtual learning and individualized, customized instruction. The scientific management emphasis on efficiency and profit at all costs can no longer take precedence over human values.

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Managing in an Age of Winner-Take-All

Harvard Business Review

Over the last 250 years, waves upon waves of scientific and engineering advances have brought about an accelerating rise in living standards that even the two deadliest wars in history could not reverse. The forces of technology and management will continue to hold equal sway as the 21st century unfolds.

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The Renaissance We Need in Business Education

Harvard Business Review

Business education today is anachronistic – it has in no way caught up with what today’s communications technologies make possible in terms of individualized instruction and virtual learning. The scientific management emphasis on efficiency and profit at all costs can no longer take precedence over human values.