Management as Profession

Repeated and, as of this writing, ongoing revelations of corporate wrongdoing over the past two years have eroded public trust in business institutions and executives to levels not seen in decades. A recent Gallup poll indicates that Americans now have no more trust in business leaders than they do in Washington politicians.1 Fairly or not, …

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Is Management A Profession

Last week the HBS Working Knowledge newsletter pointed to an article called Is Business Management a Profession?. Of course it is, but what they’re really asking is whether management ought to become professionally recognized in the same way that the fields of medicine and law are recognized. The reason for the question is that the …

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