How Long to Read From Higher Aims to Hired Hands

How Long Does it Take to Read From Higher Aims to Hired Hands?

It takes the average reader 9 hours and 9 minutes to read From Higher Aims to Hired Hands by Rakesh Khurana

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Is management a profession? Should it be? Can it be? This major work of social and intellectual history reveals how such questions have driven business education and shaped American management and society for more than a century. The book is also a call for reform. Rakesh Khurana shows that university-based business schools were founded to train a professional class of managers in the mold of doctors and lawyers but have effectively retreated from that goal, leaving a gaping moral hole at the center of business education and perhaps in management itself. Khurana begins in the late nineteenth century, when members of an emerging managerial elite, seeking social status to match the wealth and power they had accrued, began working with major universities to establish graduate business education programs paralleling those for medicine and law. Constituting business as a profession, however, required codifying the knowledge relevant for practitioners and developing enforceable standards of conduct. Khurana, drawing on a rich set of archival material from business schools, foundations, and academic associations, traces how business educators confronted these challenges with varying strategies during the Progressive era and the Depression, the postwar boom years, and recent decades of freewheeling capitalism. Today, Khurana argues, business schools have largely capitulated in the battle for professionalism and have become merely purveyors of a product, the MBA, with students treated as consumers. Professional and moral ideals that once animated and inspired business schools have been conquered by a perspective that managers are merely agents of shareholders, beholden only to the cause of share profits. According to Khurana, we should not thus be surprised at the rise of corporate malfeasance. The time has come, he concludes, to rejuvenate intellectually and morally the training of our future business leaders.

How long is From Higher Aims to Hired Hands?

From Higher Aims to Hired Hands by Rakesh Khurana is 543 pages long, and a total of 137,379 words.

This makes it 183% the length of the average book. It also has 168% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read From Higher Aims to Hired Hands Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 12 hours and 30 minutes to read From Higher Aims to Hired Hands aloud.

What Reading Level is From Higher Aims to Hired Hands?

From Higher Aims to Hired Hands is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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