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How Two National Reports Ruined Business Schools
David Cutler for the Chronicle
Fifty years ago this fall, an event took place that transformed business education across the nation and beyond: the simultaneous publication of two reports, by the Ford Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation, on the state of business education in America. Although generally regarded at the time as a salutary development, the reports, considered half a century later, can be more accurately...
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