Change over Time: The Study of the Past and the Future of Business Education

Chris Beneke

Chapter 9 in Shaping the Future of Business Education, 2013, pp 123-134 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Why would someone enrolled at a business school study history? The reasons may not be self-evident. On the surface, history is a manifestly impractical subject, earning a spot on a 2012 ‘13 Most Useless Majors’ survey (Carnevale et al.; The Daily Beast, 2012). A student who completes a history course, a concentration in history, or even an entire history major, may not be well prepared to conduct an audit, trade stocks, build a house, repair an air conditioning system, or treat an ailing patient. Given such limitations, the professionally oriented undergraduate may perceive required history courses as a prerequisite leading to nowhere or even an obstruction on the road to a career in business. Tuition-wary parents may likewise view it as a vestigial piece of an outdated and prohibitively expensive educational ideal.

Keywords: Stakeholder Theory; Historical Study; Business Student; Business Education; Undergraduate Business (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137033383_10

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