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Business Does Not Need the Humanities — But Humans Do

Harvard Business Review

In the 1930s, Elton Mayo ignited the Human Relations movement by documenting the productivity boost that came with treating assembly line workers with dignity and care. Technology is the career-obsessed breadwinner, the humanities a demure stay-at-home spouse. Putting the Humanities To Work. They must be beautiful and useful.

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