The golden passport : Harvard Business School, the limits of capitalism, and the moral failure of the MBA elite / Duff McDonald.

1. The experimenters: Charles Eliot and Abbott Lawrence Lowell ; 2. A search for mission and method: Edwin Gay ; 3. The "scientist": Frederick W. Taylor ; 4. The first decade: 1910-1919 ; 5. The case for the case method ; 6. The idealist: Wallace Brett Donham ; 7. The benefactors: George Baker, Sr. and Jr. ; 8. Doctor who?: Elton Mayo ; 9. A decade in review: 1920-1929 ; 10. The first broadside: Abraham Flexner ; 11. Friends in high places ; 12. The marriage of moral authority and managerial control ; 13. The venture capitalist: Georges Doriot ; 14. A decade in review: 1930-1939 ; 15. The West Point of capitalism ; 16. The darling of the business elite: Donald David ; 17. From the "retreads" to the crème de la crème ; 18. Temporary support of the workingman ; 19. The class the dollars fell on: the '49ers ; 20. A decade in review: 1940-1949 ; 21. Organization man and the corporate cocoon ; 22. The power elite ; 23. The hidden hand ; 24. The specialists: Robert Schlaifer and Howard Raiffa ; 25. The philanthropist: Henry Ford II ; 26. Spreading the gospel ; 27. Gentlemen (and a few ladies) ; 28. The legitimizer: Alfred Chandler ; 29. A decade in review: 1950-1959 ; 30. Peak influence ; 31. The good, the bad, and the ugly ; 32. The case against the case method ; 33. A decade in review: 1960-1969 ; 34. The myth of the well-educated manager ; 35. Harvard Business Review: origins, heyday, and scandal ; 36. Can leaders be manufactured? ; 37. Can entrepreneurship be learned? ; 38. The second broadside: Derek Bok ; 39. Managing our way to economic decline ; 40. A decade in review: 1970-1979 ; 41. The subversive nature of a social conscience ; 42. The murder of managerialism ; 43. Managerialism was already dead ; 44. The kindergarten class play ; 45. Monetizing it ; 46. The monopolist: Michael Porter ; 47. Self-interest, with a side dish of ethics ; 48. Life out of balance ; 49. A decade in review: 1980-1989 ; 50. The money mill ; 51. The thorn in their side ; 52. A decade in review: 1990-1999 ; 53. The Microsoft of business schools ; 54. The men who would be president ; 55. The shame: Jeff Skilling ; 56. The high art of self-congratulation ; 57.The loyalty program ; 58. The CEO pay gap ; 59. A decade in review: 2000-2009 ; 60. The next generation ; 61. Nitin Nohria for president ; Epilogue: Can HBS lead the way forward?

Una historia intelectual fascinante y oportuna de una de nuestras instituciones capitalistas más importantes, Harvard Business School, del autor más vendido de The Firm. Con The Firm , el periodista financiero Duff McDonald abrió el telón de la consultora gigante McKinsey & Company. En The Golden Passport , revela el funcionamiento interno de un nexo singular de poder, ambición e influencia: Harvard Business School.