The World before (and Shortly after) Wharton

2019 ◽  
pp. 14-52
Author(s):  
Steven Conn
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Business Schools ◽  
Educational Leaders ◽  
The United States ◽  
University Of Pennsylvania ◽  
American Business ◽  
Wharton School ◽  
The Social ◽  
University Degree ◽  
The University

This chapter examines why educational leaders and businessmen in the United States thought it was a good idea to establish business schools in the first place. The answer often offered at the time was that American business itself had grown so big and complex by the turn of the twentieth century that a new university-level education was now required for the new world of managerial work. However, the more powerful rationale was that businessmen wanted the social status and cultural cachet that came with a university degree. The chapter then looks at the Wharton School of Finance and Economy at the University of Pennsylvania, which was founded in 1881 and became the first business school in the United States. All of the more than six hundred business schools founded in the nearly century and a half since descend from Wharton.

A CROSS-CULTURAL INVESTIGATION OF PERSONALITY TRAITS AMONG ARAB AND AMERICAN BUSINESS STUDENTS

1996 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 221-229 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Hozik ◽  
J.W. Wright
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Business Students ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
American Business ◽  
Personality Test ◽  
Research Results ◽  
Keirsey Temperament Sorter ◽  
The University

This study identifies differences in the scores of Jordanian and American business students on the Keirsey Temperament Sorter personality test. The test was administered to 137 students at the University of Jordan in Amman, Jordan, and Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland. The research results show that, although there are significant differences in personality traits in two of four categories, there are more similarities than differences between the traits identified by these groups of students. This indicates that the personalities and temperaments of business students in Jordan and the United States are not remarkably different.

scholarly journals Sci-Hub provides access to nearly all scholarly literature

eLife ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel S Himmelstein ◽  
Ariel Rodriguez Romero ◽  
Jacob G Levernier ◽  
Thomas Anthony Munro ◽  
Stephen Reid McLaughlin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Research University ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Other ◽  
University Of Pennsylvania ◽  
Major Research ◽  
Scholarly Literature ◽  
Internet Connection ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time

The website Sci-Hub enables users to download PDF versions of scholarly articles, including many articles that are paywalled at their journal’s site. Sci-Hub has grown rapidly since its creation in 2011, but the extent of its coverage has been unclear. Here we report that, as of March 2017, Sci-Hub’s database contains 68.9% of the 81.6 million scholarly articles registered with Crossref and 85.1% of articles published in toll access journals. We find that coverage varies by discipline and publisher, and that Sci-Hub preferentially covers popular, paywalled content. For toll access articles, we find that Sci-Hub provides greater coverage than the University of Pennsylvania, a major research university in the United States. Green open access to toll access articles via licit services, on the other hand, remains quite limited. Our interactive browser at https://greenelab.github.io/scihub allows users to explore these findings in more detail. For the first time, nearly all scholarly literature is available gratis to anyone with an Internet connection, suggesting the toll access business model may become unsustainable.

Roundtable on Business Education

2008 ◽  
Vol 82 (2) ◽  
pp. 329-358 ◽  
Author(s):  
John F. Wilson ◽  
Robert R. Locke ◽  
Rolv Petter Amdam ◽  
Nuria Puig ◽  
Tamotsu Nishizawa
Keyword(s):  
Business Education ◽  
Business School ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Business Schools ◽  
The United States ◽  
American Business ◽  
Corporate Misconduct ◽  
Professional Class ◽  
Original Goal ◽  
The University

A consideration of Rakesh Khurana's From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession (Princeton, 2007).Khurana's book is an examination of the development of the university-based business school in the United States from the nineteenth century to today. He asserts that while the original goal of these schools was to train a professional class of managers in the mold of doctors or lawyers, university business schools no longer strive for this ideal. Instead, Khurana believes that business schools have become purveyors of a product –the MBA–sold to student-consumers. People should therefore not be surprised at corporate misconduct when managers are considered responsible only to shareholders. Khurana calls for a renewal of the professional ideal in the business school, in which future business leaders are trained to take their place as moral leaders in society. We asked each of the following authors to comment on the book and see if business education underwent a similar transition in other countries.

Reconstructing the University

2021 ◽  
pp. 20-41
Author(s):  
Keith Tribe
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Academic Careers ◽  
University Research ◽  
Component Part ◽  
London School ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
London School Of Economics ◽  
The University

The ‘modern university’—research-based, in which teaching and research are pursued by academic specialists organised departmentally—was created in the United States in the later nineteenth century in a productive misunderstanding of the organisation of knowledge and teaching in contemporary German universities. While the latter enjoyed international recognition, academic careers remained in thrall to an apprenticeship structure in which senior staff represented their entire discipline, supported by their juniors. The American structure, fostered by endowments and grants, presumed that departments would be composed of specialists who advanced their careers by developing their specialism. This was decisive for the disciplinary development of universities around the world. In London, the university was a federal, administrative body whose degree courses could be followed both within Britain and in the wider Empire. As a component part of this structure, the London School of Economics shared in this reach, and so came to dominate the teaching of the social sciences in Britain and the Empire.

“The Two Sons of Oil” and the Limits of American Religious Dissent

2012 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 141-161
Author(s):  
Steven Wedgeworth
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Common Good ◽  
The United States ◽  
University Of Pennsylvania ◽  
Early America ◽  
Religious Dissent ◽  
Presbyterian Church ◽  
Political Traditions ◽  
To Come ◽  
The University

In the opening decades of the nineteenth century, Samuel Brown Wylie, an Irish-Presbyterian minister of a group of Scottish and Scots-Irish Presbyterians known as the Covenanters, and William Findley, a United States Congressman and also a descendant of the Covenanters, debated the Constitution's compatibility with Christianity and the proper bounds of religious uniformity in the newly founded Republic. Their respective views were diametrically opposed, yet each managed to borrow from different aspects of earlier political traditions held in common while also laying the groundwork for contrasting political positions which would more fully develop in the decades to come. And more than a few times their views seem to criss-cross, supporting contrary trajectories from what one might expect.Their narrative, in many ways strange, challenges certain “Christian” understandings of early America and the Constitution, yet it also poses a few problems for attempts at a coherent theory of secularity, natural law, and the common good in our own day.Samuel Brown Wylie is an obscure figure in American history. As a Covenanter, Wylie was forced to immigrate to America due to his involvement in the revolutionary United-Irishmen in Ulster. After finding it impossible to unite with other Presbyterians in Pennsylvania, Wylie became the first minister in the “Reformed Presbyterian Church of the United States,” which would also be called “the Synod of the Reformed Presbyterian Church.” According to his great-grandson, Wylie also went on to become the vice-Provost of the University of Pennsylvania.

Fauri, Fedele Frederick

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maryann Syers
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
United States ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Doctoral Program ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public Welfare ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
The Social ◽  
School Of Social Work ◽  
The University

Fedele Fauri (1909–1981) was a specialist in social legislation and public welfare in the United States. He was dean of the University of Michigan School of Social Work for nearly 20 years and helped found the school's doctoral program which combined social work and the social sciences.

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