The golden passport : Harvard Business School, the limits of capitalism, and the moral failure of the MBA elite

Book 2017

"With The Firm, financial journalist Duff McDonald pulled back the curtain on consulting giant McKinsey and Company. In The Golden Passport, he reveals the inner works of a singular nexus of power, ambition, and influence: Harvard Business School. Harvard University still occupies a unique place in the public's imagination, but the Harvard Business School eclipsed its parent in terms of influence on modern society long ago. A Harvard degree gu...

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ISBN:

9780062347176

Edition:

First edition

Description:

ix, 657 pages ; 24 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 583-626) and index

Contents:

The experimenters: Charles Eliot and Abbott Lawrence Lowell
A search for mission and method: Edwin Gay
The "scientist": Frederick W. Taylor
The first decade: 1910-1919
The case for the case method
The idealist: Wallace Brett Donham
The benefactors: George Baker, Sr. and Jr.
Doctor who?: Elton Mayo
A decade in review: 1920-1929
The first broadside: Abraham Flexner
Friends in high places
The marriage of moral authority and managerial control
The venture capitalist: Georges Doriot
A decade in review: 1930-1939
The West Point of capitalism
The darling of the business elite: Donald David
From the "retreads" to the crème de la crème
Temporary support of the workingman
The class the dollars fell on: the '49ers
A decade in review: 1940-1949
Organization man and the corporate cocoon
The power elite
The hidden hand
The specialists: Robert Schlaifer and Howard Raiffa
The philanthropist: Henry Ford II
Spreading the gospel
Gentlemen (and a few ladies)
The legitimizer: Alfred Chandler
A decade in review: 1950-1959
Peak influence
The good, the bad, and the ugly
The case against the case method
A decade in review: 1960-1969
The myth of the well-educated manager
Harvard Business Review: origins, heyday, and scandal
Can leaders be manufactured?
Can entrepreneurship be learned?
The second broadside: Derek Bok
Managing our way to economic decline
A decade in review: 1970-1979
The subversive nature of a social conscience
The murder of managerialism
Managerialism was already dead
The kindergarten class play
Monetizing it
The monopolist: Michael Porter
Self-interest, with a side dish of ethics
Life out of balance
A decade in review: 1980-1989
The money mill
The thorn in their side
A decade in review: 1990-1999
The Microsoft of business schools
The men who would be president
The shame: Jeff Skilling
The high art of self-congratulation
The loyalty program
The CEO pay gap
A decade in review: 2000-2009
The next generation
Nitin Nohria for president
Epilogue: Can HBS lead the way forward?

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2309658

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