1852 - Henry Beadman Bryant, Henry Dwight Stratton (brother-in-law) acquired E. G. Folsom's Commercial College in Cleveland, OH (first two graduates of E. G. Folsom's Commercial College, founded in 1848 by R. C. Bacon, solely owned in February 1849 by Ezekiel G. Folsom as Folsom & Child's Commercial Institute, to teach Penmanship & Book-Keeping; May 1851 - incorporated as E. G. Folsom's Commercial College to provide young men with rudimentary training in business skills to fill positions in Cleveland's rapidly growing business community); 1853 - James W. Lusk joined as partner in Cleveland, renamed Bryant, Lusk & Stratton Mercantile College (to provide individuals with skills immediately transferable to workplace to help them develop in their careers); inaugurated National Chain of Mercantile Colleges (founded, acquired, partnered with business colleges across country); 1854 - opened in Buffalo, NY by Dr. John Collins Bryant as “Business Practice Learning Lab"; November 1856 - opened in Chicago, IL; 1857 - owned or were partners with institutions in Albany, Buffalo, New York City, Chicago; 1858 - former Folsom's merged with chain; 1864 - almost 50 schools; February 1867 - Stratton died, prompted demise of chain schools (no longer under governance of Bryant & Stratton Chain of Business Schools); 1937 - Bryant & Stratton Business College in Buffalo, NY renamed Bryant & Stratton; 1984 - acquired in leveraged buyout led by Bryant “By” Prentice III (J. C. Bryant’s great-great grandson); 2002 - renamed Bryant & Stratton College; February 5, 2008 - management recapitalization with Parthenon Capital, LLC to facilitate orderly ownership succession plan (Prentice, with 73% interest, sold 40.2% of stock to Parthenon Investors II, LP - new principal owner); serves 7,000 full-time students at 15 campuses in New York, Ohio, Virginia, Wisconsin; offers Associate and Bachelor degrees through 17 programs.

  (l-r):  H.B. Bryant, H.D. Stratton- Bryant & Stratton College  (http://www.lib.hit-u.ac.jp/service/tenji/k15/image/bryantstratton2.jpg)

1881 - American entrepreneur and industrialist Joseph Wharton proposed the idea in the history of business: establishment of the world's first collegiate school of business at the University of Pennsylvania for the scientific study od business and preparation of business leaders; Wharton: mineral ore industry entrepreneur (iron, zinc, and nickel), controlled Bethlehem Iron Company (predecessor to Bethlehem Steel), Manager of Swarthmore College for over 35 years. School created first business textbooks, named Albert S. Bolles as first business professor. Edmund James, early Wharton faculty member and school's first director, was founder of American Economic Association; became the first academic institution to develop administrative services in career management and academic advising.

1881 - Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCIP, quasi-public agency representing all businesses whose head offices are located in the Paris region) created Hautes Etudes Commerciales as an Ecole de Commerce to serve as an academic institution in the Baron Haussmann area. The goal at the time was to impart students with practical fundamentals in international business and to prepare them for the rise in importance of science, industry and the financial market; 1963 - created dedicated, permanent and internationally trained faculty, a true team of management professors attached to the school; 1969 - created HEC MBA program (ISA: Institut Supérieur des Affaires); 1973 - created Program in International Management (PIM) program with New York University and the London Business School (first agreement in world to involve international exchanges between business schools); 1985 - only French business school, accredited by the French Ministry of Education, to grant, alone, Ph.D. in management; 1988 - Creation of Community of European Management Schools CEMS) to create a standard for excellence in European management (17 of Europe’s most highly regarded business schools joined with more than 50 international companies to shape Europe’s management education by defining a European curriculum); 1989 - name changed to HEC school of Management.

1898 - University of Chicago founded The College of Commerce and Politics to offer practical business instruction; 1916 - first comprehensive business curriculum developed; 1920 - first school to initiate PhD program in business; 1922 - first doctoral program in business offered; 1929 - first university to grant a PhD in business to a woman, Ursula Batchelder Stone; 1933 - first program to educate hospital administrators; 1935 - business student Jay Berwanger wins the first Heisman Trophy; 1943 - first school to offer Executive MBA program for experienced managers; 1960 - James Lorie and Lawrence Fischer establish Center for Research in Securities Prices, enabled rigorous empirical analysis of stock prices and investment theories; 1982 - first business school to have a Nobel laureate on faculty (George Stigler received Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences); November 7, 2008 - David Booth (MBA '71), co-founder, chief executive of Dimensional Fund Advisors mutual fund (founded 1981, manages about $120 billion in assets through 300 funds, accounts.), donated portion of his firm's stock, from Booth Family Trust, to business school; valued at $300 million (combination of up-front payment, income stream, equity interest); largest donation in University’s history, largest gift to any business school in world (2006 - Philip H. Knight, founder and chairman of Nike, gave $105 million to Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business; 2004 - Stephen M. Ross gave $100 million to University of Michigan's business school; 2007 - combined partnership of 13 alumni gave $85 million to University of Wisconsin at Madison business school; 2007 - Frank Batten Sr., retired chairman and chief executive of Landmark Communications, gave $60 million to Darden School at University of Virginia); name changed to University of Chicago Booth School of Business (endowment of $504 million is seventh among U.S. business schools, Harvard Business School's endowment of nearly $3 billion).

September 13, 1898 - Cora Jane Flood, daughter of industrialist and University of California Regent James C. Flood, donated land to University specifically to support study of commerce (proposed by University Regents Arthur Rodgers, A.S. Hallidie, George T. Marye Jr.); University of California established College of Commerce; third collegiate business school in United States, first college of commerce at public university; Carl C. Plehn appointed first Dean of new college; 1972 - established evening MBA program; 1989 - Walter and Elise Haas Fund donated $23.75 million to building campaign (largest in history of University to that date); school renamed the Haas School of Business; 2002 - established Berkeley-Columbia joint Executive MBA program.

January 19, 1900 - Dartmouth College Trustees authorized establishment of Amos Tuck School of Administration and Finance; Edward Tuck donated $300,000 worth of stock in Great Northern Railway Company of Minnesota to found school led by Secretary Frank Dixon; 1901 - Edward Tuck donated $100,000 to build home for school; 1916 - Tuck accredited by American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB); 1942 - name changed to Amos Tuck School of Business Administration; 1953 - Tuck degree changed from Master of Commercial Science (MCS) to Master of Business Administration (MBA); 1964 - accepted Herbert Kemp T'66, first minority student; 1968 - accepted Martha Fransson T'70, first female student.

1908 - President Charles W. Eliot requested that Corporation of Harvard University establish school of business administration; October 1, 1908 - Edwin F. Gay was appointed first dean; HBS opened with faculty of 15, course of study, 33 regular students, 47 special students; 1911 - Bureau of Business Research  established to undertake first organized research in field of business administration; "problem" method,  predecessor to case method, introduced to classroom as businessmen invited to present real problems to students; 1922 - Doctoral Program established; Harvard Business Review founded; 1924 - case method established as primary method of instruction; George Fisher Baker, president of First National Bank of New York, donated $5 million to build campus for Business School on Boston side of Charles River; 1945 - group of sixty executives, recently demobilized veterans enrolled in School's first executive education program, named Advanced Management Program (continuation of wartime retraining course launched in 1943).

1908 - Northwestern University's School of Commerce formed Board of Guarantors to provide part-time evening technical training courses in business to employees of Chicago companies; hired Willard E. Hotchkiss as first Dean; October 1910 - School of Commerce opened; 1912 - faculty, Board of Trustees approved degree program leading to Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.), to coordinate courses in commerce and economics; Professor Arthur Swanson taught school’s first “marketing” course; 1915 - women students accounted for about 6% of School of Commerce student body; June 1915 - Hotchkiss, Walter Dill Scott (Department of Psychology), others created National Association of Teachers of Advertising (NATA; became American Marketing Association);  1917 - annual enrollment exceeded 1,000; 90 diplomas in Commerce awarded in first decade; 1919 - introduced full-time undergraduate day program leading to Bachelor of Science in Commerce; 1920 - launched graduate program leading toward Master of Business Administration degree; drew nearly 400 students in first two years; 1922 - Fred E. Clark published Principles of Marketing -broke marketing into its constituent parts (assembling, grading, storing, transporting, financing, selling); 1926 - established doctoral program (10 students per year until end of World War II); 1937 - annual operating budget of approximately $650,000; enrollment of more than 8,000 full-time, part-time students; among largest, financially successful collegiate business schools in United States; 1942 - School of Commerce changed name of undergraduate program to Bachelor of Science in Business Administration; 1949 - faculty, student body almost entirely male; 1956 - School of Commerce became School of Business Administration, Graduate Commerce Division became Graduate School of Business Administration; 1962 - Professor Philip Kotler joined school's esteemed Marketing Department; 1966 - MBA program admitted women for first time; 1969 - School of Business named Graduate School of Management; MBA renamed Masters of Management (MM) degree; 1979 - John L. and Helen Kellogg Foundation (son of Will Keith Kellogg, 1/3 owner of Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Co. incorporated in February 1906) donated $10 million to school; Graduate School of Management renamed J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management; 2002 - London-based Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) ranked Kellogg’s MBA program as best in world for three consecutive years.

Willard E. Hotchkiss - first Dean of Kellogg (http://archives.iit.edu/img/williamhotchkiss.jpg)

John L. Kellogg - Northwestern (http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/centennial/images/1978-1987/Kellogg_JL_1.jpg)

February 7, 1916 - Trustees of Columbia University formally authorized creation of a School of Business; James C, Egbert, classics scholar and 1881 graduate of Columbia College named first director; tuition - approximately $24 per year; 1924 - offered BS, MS, PhD degrees; 1945 - established MBA degree, changed name to Graduate School of Business.

Fall 1925 - Graduate School of Business opened at Stanford University (Herbert Hoover and friends had assembled 125 Pacific Coast business leaders, in September 1924, who agreed to raise funds to support new graduate school of business on West Coast; hoped to halt trend of bright students going east to get degree); 1926 - Willard Hotchkiss first dean of Stanford Business School (had organized business schools at University of Minnesota, Northwestern University); June 1931 - Business School awarded 62 MBA degrees, one doctorate; 1933 - Business School's first library opened with 7,000 books; 1952 - Executive Development Program offered first classes to business managers; 1971 - launched Public Management Program (careers in government, other nonprofit organizations); 1994 - established Global Management Program; 1997 - established Center for the Study of Entrepreneurship; 1999 - Center for Electronic Business and Commerce founded; 2004 - Center for Global Business and the Economy created; 2006 - adopted new MBA core curriculum.

March 2006 - Private investors Henry Kravis, Russell Carson, Arthur Samberg pledged $45 million to Columbia Business School in New York to boost its curriculum and faculty; Kravis and Samberg graduated from Columbia in 1969; Carson received MBA in 1967.

August 1, 2006 - Philip H. Knight (Stanford Business School class of 1962), founder (1972) and chairman of Nike, pledged $105 million to Stanford Business School for a new campus to be called the Knight Management Center; largest single donation to an American business school; 2004 - Stephen M. Ross, New York real estate developer, gave $100 million to University of Michigan, his alma mater, for the Ross School of Business.

April 27, 2008 - What matters to MBA students:

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August 27, 2008 - Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) said that 77% of business schools surveyed (521 graduate management programs at 273 schools in U.S., Europe, other parts of world) reported increase in application volume in 2008, up from 64% in 2007; second-largest year-over-year surge in applications to full-time programs since 2002, highest level of increase in five years; record number of students took GMAT in 2008 (administered 226,057 times during testing cycle); fourth straight year of growth for the exam; first 9-months of 2008 - U. S. GMAT registration volume totaled 129,902 (up 5.1% from same period in 2007).

March 14, 2009 - Some 146,000 graduate degrees in business awarded in 2005-06, roughly one-fourth of 594,000 graduate degrees awarded (source: Education Department); challenge: produce leaders, mot just managers.

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Edwin F. Gay - first dean HBS (http://www.harvardmagazine.com/ lib/03so/images/ 070_Image_0001.jpg)

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Amos Tuck (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Amos_tuck.jpg/180px-Amos_tuck.jpg)

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Joseph Wharton (http://www.whartonny.com/images/vault/53.jpg)

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Eds. Sue Dopson, Michael Earl and Peter Snow (2008). Mapping the Management Journey: Practice, Theory, and Context (Five Decades of Management Studies). (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 325 p). Teaches on University of Oxford's degree program in management; Former Professor of Information Management (London Business School); Industrial management; International business enterprises--Management. Development of discipline of Management Studies, concise guide to specific areas; exploration of range of sectors (private, public professional), specific functions involved in management (Corporate Strategy, Information Technology, Operations Management, Marketing). 

James Engell and Anthony Dangerfield (2005). Saving Higher Education in the Age of Money. (Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 277 p.). Education, Higher--Economic aspects--United States; Commercialism in schools--United States; Universities and colleges--United States--Sociological aspects; Education, Higher--Aims and objectives--United States. 

Dale L. Flesher (2010). Gerhard G. Mueller: Father of International Accounting Education. (Bingley, UK: Emerald, 222 p.). Professor and Arthur Andersen Alumni Lecturer in the School of Accountancy (University of Mississippi). Mueller, Gerhard G.; Accounting -- Study and teaching; International business enterprises -- Accounting -- Study and teaching. Premiere international accountant of 20th century; father of international accounting education movement; retired from academe, appointed to FASB, as academic representative to world's major standard-setting body.

Terence R. Gourvish and Nick Tiratsoo (1998). Missionaries and Managers: American Influences on European Management Education, 1945-60. (New York, NY: Manchester University Press (distrib. by St. Martin's Press), 165 p.). Management-Study and Teaching-Europe-History.

Daniel S. Greenberg (2007). Science for Sale: The Perils, Rewards, and Delusions of Campus Capitalism. (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 324 p.). Research--United States--Finance; Universities and colleges--United States; Research institutes--Economic aspects--United States; Science--Economic aspects--United States; Federal aid to research--United States. Campus capitalism is more complicated, less profitable, than media reports suggest. From research that has shifted overseas  to conflicts of interest in scientific publishing, temptations of money will always be a threat.

Norio Kambayashi, Masaya Morita, Yoko Okabe (2007). Management Education in Japan. (Oxford, UK: Chandos Publishing, 124 p.). Management -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Japan -- History. Changing nature of education, training system in Japanese firms, recent developments of management education in Japanese universities; whether MBA education system in Japanese business schools is really useful for human resource development in Japanese firms; importance of developments of Japanese-specific methods of management education.

Rakesh Khurana (2007). From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 542 p.). Associate Professor in Organizational Behavior (Harvard Business School). Business education--United States; Business schools--United States; Management--Vocational guidance--United States. Institutional history of U.S. management education: 1) business schools have largely capitulated in battle for professionalism, 2) have become purveyors of product, MBA, with students treated as consumers, 3) professional, moral ideals conquered by perspective that managers are merely agents of shareholders, beholden only to cause of profits, 4) should not be surprised at rise of corporate malfeasance.

David L. Kirp (2003). Shakespeare, Einstein, and the Bottom Line: The Marketing of Higher Education. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 336 p.). Professor of Public Policy (Berkeley). Universities and colleges--United States--Marketing; Education, Higher--Public relations--United States. 

Arjo Klamer and David Colander (1990). The Making of an Economist. (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 216 p.). Professor in de Economie van Kunst en Cultuur aan (Erasmus Universiteit, Rotterdam); CA Johnson Distinguished Professor of Economics (Middlebury College). Economics--Study and teaching (Graduate)--United States; Economists--United States; Graduate students--United States. Led to reexamination of graduate education by profession.

Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Daniel M. G. Raff and Peter Temin (1999). Learning by Doing in Markets, Firms, and Countries. (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 347 p.). Organizational learning--Congresses; Business intelligence--History--Congresses; Business enterprises--History--Case studies--Congresses; Business--History--Congresses.

Robert R. Locke (1989). Management and Higher Education Since 1940: The Influence of America and Japan on West Germany, Great Britain, and France. (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 328 p.). Management -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Germany (West); Management -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- France; Management -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Great Britain; Management -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- United States; Management -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Japan.

Ed. Robert R. Locke (1998). Management Education. (Aldershot: Dartmouth: Ashgate, 579 p.). Management--Study and teaching; Business education.

Robert R. Locke and Katja E. Schöne (2004). The Entrepreneurial Shift: Americanization in European High-Technology Management Education. (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 250 p.). Business education -- Europe; Entrepreneurship -- Study and teaching -- Europe; Business -- Technological innovations -- Study and teaching -- Europe; Business education -- France; Business education -- Germany; Business education -- Czech Republic.

Morgan W. McCall, Jr., George P. Hollenbeck (2002). Developing Global Executives: The Lessons of International Experience. (Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 259 p.). Professor of Management (USC). Executives--Training of; Executive ability; Globalization; Industrial management.

Mark H. McCormack (1984). What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School. (New York, NY: Bantam Books, 256 p.). Founder, International Creative Management. Management, Success in Business.

--- (1989). What They Still Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School : More Notes From a Street-Smart Executive. (New York, NY: Bantam Books, 298 p.). Founder, International Creative Management. Management, Success in Business.

Donald E. Mellon (1986). The Role of the Entrepreneur-Educator in Private Business Education in the United States from 1850-1915: A Study in Conditioned Entrepreneurship. (New York, NY: Garland, 501 p.). Business education--United States--History; Entrepreneurship. Series: American business history.

Henry Mintzberg (2004). Managers, not MBAs: A Hard Look at the Soft Practice of Managing and Management Development. (San Francisco, CA: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 464 p.). Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies (McGill University). Executives--Training of; Experiential learning; Active learning; Management--Study and teaching (Graduate); Master of business administration degree; Business education. 

David C. Mowery ... [et al.] (2004). Ivory Tower and Industrial Innovation: University-Industry Technology Transfer Before and After the Bayh-Dole Act in the United States. (Stanford, CA: Stanford Business Books, 241 p.). Milton W. Terrill Professor of Business, Haas School of Business (UC, Berkeley). Technology transfer--United States; Academic-industrial collaboration--United States. 

Ed. Peter Navarro (2005). What the Best MBAs Know: How To Apply the Greatest Ideas Taught in the Best Business Schools. (New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 338 p.). Professor of Business and Economics (University of California-Irvine). Business education; Master of business administration degree. 

Lyman W. Porter, Lawrence E. McKibbin (1988). Management Education and Development: Drift or Thrust into the 21st Century? (New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 372 p.). Management -- Study and teaching -- United States. Outcome of a three-year study commissioned by the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business.

The Princeton Review and Nedda Gilbert (2003). Business School Essays That Made a Difference. (New York, NY: Random House, 220 p.). Business schools--United States--Admission; College applications--United States; Essay--Authorship; Exposition (Rhetoric). 1) Forty-four real-life essays;  2) Eight case studies of b-school applicants; 3) Essay question translations; 4) Insider advice.

The Princeton Review (2006). Business School Essays That Made a Difference. (New York, NY: Princeton Review, 272 p. [2nd ed.]). Business schools--United States--Admission; College applications--United States; Essay--Authorship; Exposition (Rhetoric). Over 50 essays, interviews with admissions pros,  students who've been through process, into business school.

Eds. Christiopher C. Roland, Richard J. Wagner, Robert J. Weigand (1995). Do It-- and Understand!: The Bottom Line on Corporate Experiential Learning. (Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt Pub. Co., 239 p.). Employees--Training of; Experiential learning; Organizational change.

Alan P. Rudy, Dawn Coppin, Jason Konefal, Bradley T. Shaw, Toby A. Ten Eyck, Craig Harris and Lawrence Busch (2007). Universities in the Age of Corporate Science: The UC Berkeley-Novartis controversy. (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 256 p.). University of California, Berkeley; Novartis Agricultural Discovery Institute, Inc.; Business and education--United States; Education, Higher--Economic aspects--United States. Inside story of partnership ($25 million contract) between Plant and Microbial Biology Department at University of California, Berkeley, and Novartis Agricultural Discovery Institute (subsidiary of Novartis, international pharmaceutical, agribusiness conglomerate).

Michael Sanderson (1972). The Universities and British Industry, 1850-1970. (London, UK: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 436 p.). Universities and colleges--Great Britain--History; Business and education--Great Britain--History.

Roger C. Schank (2002). Designing World Class e-Learning: How IBM, GE, Harvard Business School, and Columbia University Are Succeeding at e-Learning. (New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 269 p.). Creator of Custom-Designed, Interactive Training Programs. Employees--Training of--Case studies; Computer-assisted instruction--Case studies. 

Debra J. Schleef (2005). Managing Elites: Professional Socialization in Law and Business Schools. (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 256 p.). Professional socialization; Elite (Social sciences); Law students--Attitudes. How elites-in-training contest, rationalize, embrace their dominant positions in society.

Michael W. Sedlak (1977). The Emergence and Development of Collegiate Business Education in the United States, 1881-1974 : Northwestern University as a Case Study. (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University, 456 p.). Management-Study and Teaching, Business Education.

Scott Shane (2004). Academic Entrepreneurship: University Spinoffs and Wealth Creation. (Northampton, MA: E. Elgar, 335 p.). High technology industries--United States; University-based new business enterprises--United States; Academic-industrial collaboration--United States; Research, Industrial--United States; Technology transfer--United States; Entrepreneurship--United States.

Edited with an introduction by Terry K. Sheldahl (1989). Education for the Mercantile Counting House: Critical and Constructive Essays by Nine British writers, 1716-1794. (New York, NY: Garland, 412 p.). Merchants--Education--England--History--18th century; Business education--England--History--18th century. Series: Foundations of accounting.

Sheila Slaughter and Gary Rhoades (2004). Academic Capitalism and the New Economy: Markets, State, and Higher Education. (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 370 p.). Professor of Higher Education (University of Arizona); Director of the Center for the Study of Higher Education (University of Arizona). Education, Higher--Economic aspects--United States; Business and education--United States; Universities and colleges--United States--Sociological aspects. 

Michael Useem (1989). Liberal Education and the Corporation: The Hiring and Advancement of College Graduates. (New York, NY: A. de Gruyter, 216 p.). College graduates--Employment--United States; Corporate culture--United States.

Eds. Charles Wankel and Robert DeFillippi (2005). Educating Managers Through Real World Projects. (Greenwich, CT: Information Age Pub., 378 p.). St. Johns University; Suffolk University. Management--Study and teaching; Business education. Innovative learning projects in contemporary management education and development in frame of cutting-edge theory, salient practice. 

Jennifer Washburn (2004). University, Inc.: The Corporate Corruption of American Higher Education. (New York, NY: Basic Books, 320 p.). Fellow at the New America Foundation. Business and education--United States; Universities and colleges--United States--Administration. 

David A. Whetten, Kim S. Cameron. (2004). Developing Management Skills. (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 720 p. [6th ed.]). Management--Study and teaching; Management--Problems, exercises, etc.

Richard Whitley, Alan Thomas, Jane Marceau (1981). Masters of Business?: Business Schools and Business Graduates in Britain and France. (New York, NY: Tavistock Publications, 241 p.). Business education--Great Britain; Business education--France; Business education graduates--Great Britain; Business education graduates--France; Master of business administration degree--Great Britain; Master of business administration degree--France.

Jonathan Winterton and Ruth Winterton (1999). Developing Managerial Competence. (New York, NY: Routledge, 307 p.). Management--Study and teaching--Great Britain; Executives--Training of--Great Britain; Executive ability--Standards--Great Britain; Competency based education--Great Britain.

Eds. Mimi Wolverton and Larry Edward Penley (2004). Elite MBA Programs at Public Universities: How a Dozen Innovative Schools Are Redefining Business Education. (Westport, CT: Praeger, 252 p.). Business education--United States; Master of business administration degree--United States; Business schools--United States.

Mahmood A. Zaidi, Aleksander Sulejewicz (2010). Beyond MBA: Management Education in Transitional Economies. (Warsaw, Poland: Warsaw School of Economics, 491 p.). Professor , Founding Director of International Program Office Center for Human Resources and Labor Studies (University of Minnesota); Warsaw School of Economics. Business education -- Poland; Management -- Study and teaching -- Poland.
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LINKS

Academy of Management                                                                                                  http://acm.pace.edu                                                                                                   

A leading professional association of scholars dedicated to creating and disseminating knowledge about management and organizations. The Academy’s central mission is to enhance the profession of management by advancing the scholarship of management and enriching the professional development of its members.

Aspen Institute Center for Business Education’s Teaching Innovation                                 http://www.aspeninstitute.org/site/c.huLWJeMRKpH/ b.612443/k.8512/Teaching_Innovation_Program.htm

The Teaching Innovation Program (TIP) is designed to create a tipping point in business education to further the teaching of corporate citizenship and values-based leadership. Through TIP, The Aspen Institute Business and Society Program (Aspen BSP) creates networks of business school faculty and business practitioners from around the world. As part of TIP, teams of business school faculty from participating schools implement pilot projects at their respective institutions, each aimed at assisting individuals and firms in addressing challenges and opportunities in the areas of corporate citizenship, social impact management, corporate social responsibility (CSR), and values-based leadership. The faculty teams, along with corporate representatives, convene several times to identify common opportunities and critical challenges within projects and share knowledge and experiences.

Association for Business Simulation and Experiential Learning                                                             http://www.towson.edu/~absel/                                                                                    

ABSEL is a professional association whose purpose is to develop and promote the use of experiential techniques and simulations in the field of business education and development.

Biz/ed: Virtual Learning Arcade                                                                                                           http://www.bized.ac.uk/virtual/vla/                                                                               

A new offering from Biz/ed, the Virtual Learning Arcade uses simulations and interactive online models to help teach concepts related to economics and business. Along with the simulations are a variety of support materials written to help educators take full advantage of the tools provided. Ten simulations are currently available, but the goal of the project is to have twenty eventually. Interested users can sign up for the Biz/ed newsletter to keep up-to-date on the newest VLA releases.

Business Schools.com                                                                                               http://www.businessschools.com/                                                                              

This site is designed to provide detailed information on many different aspects of pursuing an undergraduate or advanced degree in business, along with providing related information on available scholarships and potential career options. Developed as part of the All Schools online network, visitors to the site can search their database of over 1500 schools by state, country, specialty, and educational level. The search engine will return results based on visitors specifications that will contain links to the different schools' respective programs, along with a link to send email to the program directly. The site also has a helpful list of hundreds of financial aid options available to students studying business, along with a glossary and suggested reading for selecting an appropriate program. Finally, the site contains numerous guidance articles written by experts in the field of business education, such as a Yale business school professor and a former Ocean Spray marketing director.

A Daring Experiment: Harvard and Business Education for Women, 1937-1970                                 http://www.library.hbs.edu/hc/daring/                                                                          

1937 - The history of business education for women at Harvard began with a certificate program in personnel administration at Radcliffe College. Called "the first daring experiment in ‘practical education’ for women"1 by Harvard Business School Professor Fritz Roethlisberger, the course eventually evolved into the Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration (HRPBA), jointly managed by Harvard Business School and Radcliffe College.

Management Education and Discussion                                                                                    http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/mg-ed-dv.html                                                  

Sharing management learning ideas and content.

Organizational Behavior Teaching Society: Teaching Society for Management Educators                    http://www.obts.org                                                                                          

Dedicated to innovative teaching and learning in the organizational and management sciences. Our members are faculty at universities and colleges throughout the world, as well as business educators and consultants in the profit and non-profit sectors. Mission: "To promote quality teaching and learning across the management disciplines." David L. Bradford Outstanding Educator Award honors one person or a team with consistently demonstrated achievement in teaching and learning over a lifetime or career. Outstanding educators impact the field of management education as a whole, with innovations and ideas often extending to a wider audience

Watch It Made in the U.S.A.                                                                                             http://www.factorytour.com/                                                                                  

A Visitor's Guide to the Companies That Make Your Favorite Products - experience firsthand the products, companies, technology, and workers that fuel our economy, from Boeing to Ben & Jerry's, Hallmark to Harley-Davidson. Whether you're curious about potato chips or computer chips, cars or crayons; information about the more than 300 ordinary and extraordinary products most of us take for granted.