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SBE/SIM Keynote speaker: Professor Rakesh Khurana, Harvard Business School The Past as Prologue: The Professionalization Project in American Business Education Saturday, August 9, 6 p.m.

  • 1.  SBE/SIM Keynote speaker: Professor Rakesh Khurana, Harvard Business School The Past as Prologue: The Professionalization Project in American Business Education Saturday, August 9, 6 p.m.

    Posted 08-04-2008 13:28
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    Dear Colleagues:

    I wish to invite you to listen to a fascinating talk about the
    evolution of business schools and management education in the U.S.

    Professor Rakesh Khurana of the Harvard Business School will talk
    about the decline of the commitment to educate a "general manager" -
    one with attention to and a moral commitment to many stakeholders -
    to a present day approach that is dominated by a technical and
    finance/economics based curriculum focused on shareholders and
    shareholder wealth. This transformation has relegated ethics as a
    course and the attention to any moral or professional obligations of
    managers to the back shelf of most business schools.

    The talk will be based upon his excellent 2007 book, From Higher Aims
    to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business
    Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession.
    (Princeton U. Press).

    The talk will be on Saturday night, August 9, 6 p.m. - 7:15, with a
    reception to follow until 9 p.m.
    Venue: Doubletree Guest Suites Anaheim Resort/Convention Center
    2085 S. Harbor Blvd. (cross street is W. Orangewood Ave)
    Hotel telephone 714 750-3000

    I hope you will join Professor Khurana for this event.



    Cordially,


    Doug Schuler, Organizer
    Doug Schuler
    Associate Professor
    Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management
    Rice University
    6100 Main St., MS-531
    Houston, TX 77005
    Tel. 713 348-5472
    Fax. 713 348-6331
    E-mail. schuler@rice.edu

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