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...school five to ten years. Says she: "Management often puts this high-priced talent on a blistering fast track instead of grooming and developing it with experience. One result is some unrealistic career timetables." Financial Correspondent Frederick Ungeheuer expressed similar concern after going to Columbia and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and speaking with M.B.A.s working in Manhattan: "The analytical tools they had acquired in business school certainly enabled them to rapidly climb through corporate hierarchies, but few could explain what exactly they had contributed in new ideas, new products or new technologies. The creative mainspring...
...Wrongly so. Wharton was founded as an undergraduate school in 1881. Dartmouth's graduate program at its Amos Tuck School dates from...
...executives. Already there is some talk of an M.B.A. glut and of what Dean Jack Steele, of the University of Southern California, calls "the debased coin of the realm." But at the top level-a position widely attributed to Harvard, Stanford, the University of Chicago and Pennsylvania's Wharton School, followed by not more than half a dozen others-enrollment remains fairly steady, while the competition to get in becomes increasingly fierce. Stanford Dean of Admissions Lawrence Lieberman gleefully rubs his hands together as he reports more than 5,100 applicants for 300 places, which is twice the rate...
...What we have found is that the future of this university rests with the sciences, with Wharton, with engineering," President Sheldon Hackney said, adding, "Regardless of whether or not we like it, the liberal arts at Penn are not going to pay the rent...
...observation into a broad cultural thesis. Nearly all modern literatures question the aims of money and power. But so, rightly or wrongly, do mod ern unions, consumer groups and havenots. Epstein leaves the impression that Americans are stewing in ambivalence because they have read Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Edith Wharton, Sinclair Lewis, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Budd Schulberg. Publishing sales figures would not support such an impression...