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Business school illusions

23 Dec 2009
In the 1990s, "managers' capitalism" replaced "owners' capitalism" as executive power and pay spiralled out of control. And as academics pandered to the demands of businesses and universities milked the MBA cash cow, academic rigour, critical thinking and intellectual diversity were all sacrificed to mammon.

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