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Management’s Three Eras: A Brief History

Harvard Business Review

While schools dedicated specifically to business had been offering classes throughout the 1800s in Europe, the economic juggernaut US gained its first institution of higher education in management with the 1881 founding of the Wharton School. This was the rise of what Drucker famously dubbed “knowledge work.”