This book publishes at a troubling time. As I write, the world is slowly, awkwardly emerging from a pandemic and entering economic turbulence, political turbulence, and social and cultural turbulence. Our problems—local, national, and global—are real and solutions seem in short supply.
The business school was born in a moment of similar confusion. The world before and after World War II was a tumultuous world in need of improving solutions sought by the ethically responsible. The first business schools were invented with the transparent intent of finding these solutions. That among the four men at the center of HBS’s origin story—Henderson, Roethlisberger, Mayo, and Donham—there was a graduate of the Harvard Medical School, and a trained ...
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