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The Renaissance We Need in Business Education

Harvard Business Review

The Gordon-Howell Report in 1959, funded by the Ford Foundation, criticized the weak scientific foundation of business education, suggesting that professors were more like quacks than serious scholars. The Carnegie Foundation’s findings resulted in a thick book called The Education of American Businessmen , also published in 1959.

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The Renaissance We Need in Business Education

Harvard Business Review

The Gordon-Howell Report in 1959, funded by the Ford Foundation, criticized the weak scientific foundation of business education, suggesting that professors were more like quacks than serious scholars. The Carnegie Foundation’s findings resulted in a thick book called The Education of American Businessmen , also published in 1959.