Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Higher Education from Antiquity to the Medieval University

Chapter 3 Medieval Craft Guilds Died Out in Business, but They Are Alive and Thriving in Business Schools

Chapter 4 Critical Juncture I: The Pseudo-Humboldtian Influence

Chapter 5 The Purpose of the University

Chapter 6 Critical Juncture II: Mass Education and the Demise of the Humboldtian University: The Great Paradox—University in Ruin Caused by Its Own Success

Chapter 7 Prestige and Prestige-Seeking in Universities

Chapter 8 Critical Juncture III: The 1959 Foundation Reports—Throwing Out the Baby with the Bath Water?

Chapter 9 Prestige-Seeking by Business Schools

Chapter 10 Credentialing: Safe for Another 800 Years?

Chapter 11 Professions, University-Based Professional Schools, and Business as a Profession

Chapter 12 Professional Schools Displace Practice-Based Training

Chapter 13 Lessons from University-Based Journalism Schools and Law Schools

Chapter 15 Critical Juncture IV: The State’s Reduction in Munificence

Chapter 16 Another Paradox: The Business School in Ruins