Do business schools actually make good on their promises of 'innovative', 'outside-the-box' thinking to train business leaders who will put society ahead of money-making? Do they help society by making better business leaders? No, they don't, Steven Conn asserts, and what's more they never have. In throwing down a gauntlet on the business of business schools, this book examines the frictions, conflicts, and contradictions at the heart of these enterprises and details the way business schools have failed to resolve them.

Previously issued in print: 2019.