- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780804770750
- eISBN:
- 9780804778374
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804770750.003.0004
- Subject:
- Business and Management, Knowledge Management
In the twentieth century, reforms enabled the business school to acquire graduate-professional status and to deliver the research university's requisite synergy between basic science and applied ...
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In the twentieth century, reforms enabled the business school to acquire graduate-professional status and to deliver the research university's requisite synergy between basic science and applied science. The first reform was implemented at Harvard Business School, resulting in the creation of a professional school of business (PSB) following Harvard Law School (HLS). At HLS, law professors and the university, not master-practitioners and the apprenticeship system, were the ones that controlled legal education. The graduate school of business put the business school's foundations in the behavioral and quantitative sciences while fitting the vocational school of business (VSB) into to this logic by interpreting the technical specialties as applications of these sciences. The model devolved to lower-tier institutions and grew readily in any VSB attached to a research university. While law and medical students often entered graduate school straight from college, the business school rewarded work and life experience. The elite business school, part of the elite research university, attracted a new kind of student: the executive-scholar.Less
In the twentieth century, reforms enabled the business school to acquire graduate-professional status and to deliver the research university's requisite synergy between basic science and applied science. The first reform was implemented at Harvard Business School, resulting in the creation of a professional school of business (PSB) following Harvard Law School (HLS). At HLS, law professors and the university, not master-practitioners and the apprenticeship system, were the ones that controlled legal education. The graduate school of business put the business school's foundations in the behavioral and quantitative sciences while fitting the vocational school of business (VSB) into to this logic by interpreting the technical specialties as applications of these sciences. The model devolved to lower-tier institutions and grew readily in any VSB attached to a research university. While law and medical students often entered graduate school straight from college, the business school rewarded work and life experience. The elite business school, part of the elite research university, attracted a new kind of student: the executive-scholar.
