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Management’s Three Eras: A Brief History

Harvard Business Review

The goal was to optimize the outputs that could be generated from a specific set of inputs. 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.