Nothing Succeeds Like Failure

Steven Conn is W. E. Smith Professor of History at Miami University. He is author of numerous books, including, most recently, Americans against the City.

• Introduction: No Success Like Failure: Business Schools and American Higher Education1. The World Before (and Shortly After) Wharton: Getting a Business Education in the Nineteenth Century2. Teach the Children... What? Business Schools and Their Curricular Confusions3. Dismal Science versus Applied Economics: The Unhappy Relationship between Business Schools and Economics Departments4. It's a White Man's World: Women and African Americans in Business Schools5. Good in a Crisis? How Business Schools Responded to Economic Downturns - or Didn't6. Same as It Ever Was: How Business Schools Helped Create the New Gilded Age

Conn's overall position on B-School failures is clear: few have done so using a historical lens so rich in anecdote.(Times Higher Education) Steven Conn is a respected historian, and Nothing Succeeds Like Failure deserves high praise.(Choice) An exceptionally informed, iconoclastic, and thought-provoking read throughout, Nothing Succeeds Like Failure is a unique and unreservedly recommended addition to both college and university library Business Education & Reference collections.(Midwest Book Review) Conn draws upon his scholarly skills to tell this story with a light touch. A lively choice for readers who are skeptical of the claims of business schools to train leaders with an ethical perspective.(Library Journal) Historian Steven Conn has produced a gleeful roast of the American business school.(History of Education Quarterly)