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Need for Specifics. Dissenting, Justice Abe Fortas pointed out that the boy had been directed to make the purchase by his mother in an effort to get Ginsberg convicted. "Bookselling," said Fortas, "should not be a hazardous profession." The magazines that Sam Ginsberg sold were admittedly not obscene for adults...
Another reason that the more academically bright students at Harvard shun business is that, as Professor Kenneth Andrews has pointed out, although professional education for managers has progressed considerably, only recently has it been accepted as a legitimate "academic discipline." Graduate education has sky-rocketed in recent years, and has become mandatory for most of the professions. Law, medicine and scholarship all have necessary and accepted disciplines, where the structure and thought of the particular profession are taught. One must study at graduate school for these professions; one must embrace the discipline involved...
In business, this has not always been so. One needed only to go out and join the great free-enterprise system to become a businessman in the past. Even before a student chooses a career, he is concerned with the legitimacy of his graduate studies. Only recently has management become...
First of all, business must stop the panic itself. It must not make a crisis out of a problem. Students don't hate it; they're going into the profession more than ever. Robert Galvin, Chairman of the Board of Motorola, made an expensive attempt at bridging the gap last...
Management is indeed an academic profession. The role of the manager must be stressed in this light. A manager applies the intellectual training he has received in business school to the problems of the distribution of goods and services in much the same way that the lawyer applies his legal...