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Gravy Training

Inside the Business of Business Schools

Stuart Crainer and Des Dearlove
Jossey-Bass, 1999

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Editorial Rating

8

Qualities

  • Innovative

Recommendation

Journalists Stuart Crainer and Des Dearlove blow the lid off business schools in this critically acclaimed expose, admired and valued even by those it criticizes: the people running and teaching at university business schools in the U.S. and elsewhere. The author’s mix investigation, candid stories, hard data and insightful commentary in this immensely readable examination of the conflict between the academic and commercial. getAbstract.com recommends this to everyone who is in business - or who is thinking about a business future that includes graduate school.

Take-Aways

  • A gravy train is defined as a much-exploited source of easy money.
  • Business schools have become victims of their own success.
  • The credibility of many business schools is on the line.

About the Authors

Stuart Crainer  and Des Dearlove  are U.K.-based journalists with 20 years of business reporting experience. They co-founded the Suntop Media consulting firm. Crainer’s work has appeared in the Financial Times, Across the Board and Strategy & Business. His business books include the Ultimate series and the Financial Times Handbook of Management. Dearlove writes regularly for the London Times, the American Management Review and Human Resources. He is the author of a number of books on management best practices.

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