Word: gospels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Schorsh never wrote the thing of course, but Peter Cohen, an MBA who passed through the Business School more peacefully and more successfully, has written a book The Gospel According to the Harvard Business School: The Education of American's Managerial Elite: The Case of Section B, about what he thinks is wrong with the school. Unfortunately, the book is as poor as the title is long...
...school deserves attention, more than it gets. But it should not be subjected to the kind of misdirected attention Peter Cohen bestows on it. The Gospel... is plagued with problems of writing, problems of reporting, problems with the method of presentation, and problems of perspective...
...best people to write serious studies of the institutions as sociological phenomena. Too caught up with what they themselves do, they suffer from a tendency to turn themselves and their friends into case studies, into role models, or even into interesting people, which they are not. The Gospel According to The Harvard Business School, dealing with the Harvard Business School from September 1968 to June 1970 is really nothing more than a strike book, an inferior version of Push Comes to Shove (as if Kelman's book were not bad enough), too out of date, even more pretentious, and outrageously...
Sanders preaches a gospel of basketball, not religion. Although not a man for fire and brimstone, Sanders hopes to generate a spirited gathering of believers at the Indoor Athletic Building this winter...
...laws that would curb consumption, thus shearing profits at many corporations and at the same time irritating the electorate. In addition, the President and his top aides are ideologically opposed to any interference in the free market; to them planning is a dirty word. According to their classical economic gospel, if shortages occur, prices will rise, and this in turn will cause a burst in output...