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The Past, Present, and Future of the Business School

By: Edward W. Miles

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The Past, Present, and Future of the Business School

By: Edward W. Miles

This book examines the criticism that modern business schools face and how these obstacles have evolved throughout history. Through historical, resource, and professional school contexts, it sheds light on the operating environment of the business school and the challenges endemic to various university-based professional schools, exploring the likelihood that potential interventions will result in success or failure. Business schools are often accused of inhibiting the practice of business by producing research that is irrelevant and does not address real concerns facing managers. This book investigates these accusations by outlining the historical values on which academic institutions are based, the resources and funding available today, and comparisons to other professional schools which undergo a similar level of scrutiny. This extensive coverage will help academics, administrators, faculty, and policy makers with the tools to understand better the ill-will towards business schools in today’s university structure, and ultimately to deliver on the benefits they provide to stakeholders.

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3319336398

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A Conspiratorial Life

Robert Welch, the John Birch Society, and the Revolution of American Conservatism

By: Edward H. Miller

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A Conspiratorial Life

Robert Welch, the John Birch Society, and the Revolution of American Conservatism

By: Edward H. Miller

The first full-scale biography of Robert Welch, who founded the John Birch Society and planted some of modern conservatism’s most insidious seeds. Though you may not know his name, Robert Welch (1899-1985)—founder of the John Birch Society—is easily one of the most significant architects of our current political moment. In A Conspiratorial Life, the first full-scale biography of Welch, Edward H. Miller delves deep into the life of an overlooked figure whose ideas nevertheless reshaped the American right. A child prodigy who entered college at age 12, Welch became an unlikely candy magnate, founding the company that created Sugar Daddies, Junior Mints, and other famed confections. In 1958, he funneled his wealth into establishing the organization that would define his legacy and change the face of American politics: the John Birch Society. Though the group’s paranoiac right-wing nativism was dismissed by conservative thinkers like William F. Buckley, its ideas gradually moved from the far-right fringe into the mainstream. By exploring the development of Welch’s political worldview, A Conspiratorial Life shows how the John Birch Society’s rabid libertarianism—and its highly effective grassroots networking—became a profound, yet often ignored or derided influence on the modern Republican Party. Miller convincingly connects the accusatory conservatism of the midcentury John Birch Society to the inflammatory rhetoric of the Tea Party, the Trump administration, Q, and more. As this book makes clear, whether or not you know his name or what he accomplished, it’s hard to deny that we’re living in Robert Welch’s America.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226826503

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9780226826509

The Purpose of the Business School

Alternative Views and Implications for the Future

By: Edward W. Miles

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The Purpose of the Business School

Alternative Views and Implications for the Future

By: Edward W. Miles

In the mid-20th century, university-based business schools re-oriented themselves to increased alignment with the preferences of the university and decreased alignment with the preferences of business. This re-alignment has caused multiple observers to question the effectiveness of current-day business schools. For example, recent discussions have lamented that business schools are engaged in research that does not influence the practice of business. This book engages these debates, arguing that all judgments about the effectiveness of business schools are rooted in assumptions about what the purposes of the business school appropriately are and that many of those assumptions are unstated and not subjected to debate. The author weaves a unique blend of complexity theory, philosophy of science, and the nature of professions to articulate those goals and assess the effectiveness at meeting them. The book traces parallel discussions regarding the purpose of the university in the writings of Aristotle and Wilhelm von Humboldt and ties those discussions to current debates. This book will inform business faculty and administrators of the degree to which university-based business schools are balancing multiple purposes which include discovery of knowledge, creating knowledge that informs the practice of business, training professionals, and instilling ethical principles in its training of those professionals.

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3030157814

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The Cream of Leicestershire. Eleven Seasons' Skimmings, Notable Runs and Incidents of the Chase, Selected and Republished from "The Field"

By: Edward Pennell Elmhirst

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The Cream of Leicestershire. Eleven Seasons' Skimmings, Notable Runs and Incidents of the Chase, Selected and Republished from "The Field"

By: Edward Pennell Elmhirst

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385353505

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9783385353503

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The Past, Present, and Future of the Business School

The Past, Present, and Future of the Business School

A Conspiratorial Life

A Conspiratorial Life

The Purpose of the Business School

The Purpose of the Business School

The Cream of Leicestershire. Eleven Seasons' Skimmings, Notable Runs and Incidents of the Chase, Selected and Republished from "The Field"

The Cream of Leicestershire. Eleven Seasons' Skimmings, Notable Runs and Incidents of the Chase, Selected and Republished from "The Field"

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