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Nothing succeeds like failure : the sad history of American business schools
\"Since they were founded in the late nineteenth century, business schools have made many promises to higher education, to businesses and to American society that they have consistently failed to keep\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Americans Against the City
It is a paradox of American life that we are a highly urbanized nation filled with people deeply ambivalent about urban life. In this provocative and sweeping book, historian Steven Conn explores the \"anti-urban impulse\" across the 20th century and examines how those ideas have shaped the places Americans have lived and worked, and how they have shaped the anti-government politics of the New Right.
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Nothing Succeeds Like Failure
Do business schools actually make good on their promises of \"innovative, \" \"outside-the-box\" thinking to train business leaders who will put society ahead of money-making? Do they help society by making better business leaders? No, they don't, Steven Conn asserts, and what's more they never have. In throwing down a gauntlet on the business of business schools, Conn's Nothing Succeeds Like Failure examines the frictions, conflicts, and contradictions at the heart of these enterprises and details the way business schools have failed to resolve them. Beginning with founding of the Wharton School in 1881, Conn measures these schools' aspirations against their actual accomplishments and tells the full and disappointing history of missed opportunities, unmet aspirations, and educational mistakes. Conn then poses a set of crucial questions about the role and function of American business schools. The results aren't pretty. Posing a set of crucial questions about the function of American business schools, Nothing Succeeds Like Failure is pugnacious and controversial. Deeply researched and fun to read, Nothing Succeeds Like Failure argues that the impressive façades of business school buildings resemble nothing so much as collegiate versions of Oz. Conn pulls back the curtain to reveal a story of failure to meet the expectations of the public, their missions, their graduates, and their own lofty aspirations of producing moral and ethical business leaders.
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Metropolitan Philadelphia
As America's fifth largest city and fourth largest metropolitan region, Philadelphia is tied to its surrounding counties and suburban neighborhoods. It is this vital relationship, suggests Steven Conn, that will make or break greater Philadelphia. The Philadelphia region has witnessed virtually every major political, economic, and social transformation of American life. Having once been an industrial giant, the region is now struggling to fashion a new identity in a postindustrial world. On the one hand, Center City has been transformed into a vibrant hub with its array of restaurants, shops, cultural venues, and restored public spaces. On the other, unchecked suburban sprawl has generated concerns over rising energy costs and loss of agriculture and open spaces. In the final analysis, the region will need a dynamic central city for its future, while the city will also need a healthy sustainable region for its long-term viability. Central to the identity of a twenty-first century Metropolitan Philadelphia, Conn argues, is the deep and complicated interplay of past and present. Looking at the region through the wide lens of its culture and history,Metropolitan Philadelphiamoves seamlessly between past and present. Displaying a specialist's knowledge of the area as well as a deep personal connection to his subject, Conn examines the shifting meaning of the region's history, the utopian impulse behind its founding, the role of the region in creating the American middle class, the regional watershed, and the way art and cultural institutions have given shape to a resident identity. Impressionistic and beautifully written,Metropolitan Philadelphiawill be of great interest to urbanists and at the same time accessible to the wider public intrigued in the rich history and cultural dynamics of this fascinating region. What emerges from the book is a wide-ranging understanding of what it means to say, \"I'm from Philadelphia.\"
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War and national identity
In 1831 the government enforced an 1804 treaty made with the Sauk to remove them from Illinois across the Mississippi to the Iowa territory. The treaty is surely one of the dodgiest in a long line of suspect agreements made between whites and natives. Black Hawk certainly didn't recognize its legitimacy, and in April 1832 he led a small band back across the Mississippi to reclaim the Sauk settlement at Saukenuk, the cultural and spiritual center of their world. A series of battles ensued as troops pursued Black Hawk up into Wisconsin, culminating Aug. 2 at Bad Ax, along the eastern bank of the Mississippi. Bad Ax was not so much a battle as a massacre. By this point, the Sauk were starving, beleaguered and retreating desperately. Troops responded with butchery so savage that even some officers were appalled. So ended the Black Hawk War.
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