Research Catalog

Title

Gravy training : inside the business of business schools / Stuart Crainer, Des Dearlove.

Author

Crainer, Stuart.

Publication

San Francisco : Jossey-Bass Publishers, [1999], ©1999.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

Dearlove, Des.

Description

xxii, 315 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

• "In Gravy Training, two hard-hitting business writers present the controversial results of their own investigation into the world's most prestigious business schools. Are such elite centers of management education as Columbia, Stanford, and Wharton really crucibles of cutting-edge theory and expertise? Or are they merely cash cows for the universities and their faculties?"--BOOK JACKET.
• "Crainer and Dearlove conducted extensive research and interviewed hundreds of administrators and faculty members to find out if business schools deliver on their promises and discern what their futures may hold. Their page-turning examination of the B-school phenomenon contains provocative stories and startling facts about the incredible speaking and consulting fees charged by B-school stars.
• They delve into the power networks that link alumni, show how academic affiliations affect the way top CEOs do their jobs, and reveal how Business Week and other media rankings drive business school curricula."--BOOK JACKET. "But Gravy Training is more than an expose. It proposes forty reforms that can return business schools to their original goal of training effective management professionals."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

The Jossey-Bass business & management series

Uniform Title

Jossey-Bass business & management series.

Subject

• Business schools
• Master of business administration degree

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-272) and indexes.

Contents

Preface: Welcome to Gravy Training -- Introduction: Gravy Tales -- 1. The Business School Phenomenon -- 2. Building an Engineer's Paradise -- 3. Business or Ivory Tower? -- 4. The Industrialization of the MBA -- 5. The Business of Professorship -- 6. Strings Attached? -- 7. Alumni Associations: The New Power Networks -- 8. Rankings on the Line -- 9. The New Competition -- 10. Uncertain Futures -- 11. Where Now for Business Schools? -- App. Quick Guide to Methodology Used for Business School Composite Ratings.

ISBN

• 0787949310 (acid-free paper)
• 0787908584

LCCN

99006683

OCLC

ocm41612285

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries