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Problems and Challenges in Teaching Business History in Professional Education for Business

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2012

John G. B. Hutchins
John G. B. Hutchins
Affiliation:
School of Business and Public Administration, Cornell University
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Extract

Business history as a differentiated subject is of comparatively recent origin in the American academic scene. It has naturally been most closely associated with collegiate schools of business, and particularly with those offering graduate or semi-graduate programs of instruction. It now seems appropriate to inquire what rôle it plays in such programs, what should be its content, how it should be presented, and what relationship it has to the closely associated fields of economic history, economics, business administration, and public administration

Type
Problems and Challenges in Teaching Business
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Business History Review , Volume 24 , Issue 3 , September 1950 , pp. 146 - 156
Copyright
Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 1950

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Editor's Note: This paper was read at the joint meeting of the Business Historical Society, Inc., and the American Historical Association in Boston, December 29, 1949.

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