دانلود کتاب MBA در 30 روز – راهنمای مسیر سریع شما برای موفقیت در کسب و کار

The claim to being the world’s first business school is, like everything else in business, hotly disputed. The honour is usually said to rest with Ecole Speciale de Commerce et d’Industrie (now ESCP Europe), established in Paris in December 1819, with Jean-Baptiste Say, who coined the word ‘entrepreneur’, as its first professor of economics. Wharton led the field in the US, founded in 1881 by Joseph Wharton, a self-taught businessman. A miner, he made his fortune through the American Nickel Company and the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, later to become the subject of the earliest business case studies. The school is based in an urban campus at Philadelphia’s University of Pennsylvania. It wasn’t until 1900 that Tuck School of Business, part of Dartmouth College, began conferring advanced degrees in management sciences. In 1908 Harvard Business School opened, with a faculty of 15 and some 80 students, and two years later it was offering a Management Master’s programme. By 1922 Harvard was running a doctoral programme pioneering research into business methods. The UK was late into the business school game. The Administrative Staff College at Henley (now Henley Business School), established in 1945 as the civilian equivalent of the Military Staff Colleges, was a business school in all but name. It took a further decade or so before the long-held belief of politicians and business leaders that management was an inherited ability, a view reinforced by the heavy concentration of family-run businesses, diminished.