Rakesh Khurana, “From Higher Aims to Hired Hands”, Invisible Hand, 2008/04/05 September 12, 2008
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Business schools granting MBA degrees were originally started to develop leaders who would direct organizations to a higher social purpose. In the business schools today, MBAs are more “hired hands”. Chris Gondek wrote:
It is only a slight exaggeration to say that Rakesh Khurana’s From Higher Aims to Hired Hands could have been the perfect book to end the series with, not that I am ending the series, but in that, as the initial impetus for starting the show was my need to work through what was wrong with my MBA experience, this book gave me some much needed closure.
[....] If you ever went to B-school and wondered if all it should be was learning skills, read this book and see what happened to the noble experiment.
John Battelle, AfterTv, 2006/12/27 September 12, 2008
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Writing about Silicon Valley in the rise and fall of the dot-com era would have been an interesting time.
Wired Magazine, The Industry Standard, Federated Media: These are only three of the things that John Battelle has done with the Web in the past ten years. And there’s more to come.
In this interview with Andrew Keen, Battelle casts a keen eye on what is past, and passing and to come in the Brave New Internet. Google, the subject of his latest book, The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture is only one of these.
