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Training Leaders to Win Wars and Forge Peace: Lessons from History (Winter 2020)

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Leaders of business schools and other educational institutions have enjoyed decades of stability. Today, we confront a set of systemic global challenges, including a pandemic, severe economic weakness, heightened inequality, racial injustice, and a climate emergency. Taken together, these challenges redefine the environment in which we operate—and offer us an opportunity to reimagine our organizations. We can learn about how to deal with this level of upheaval by studying how leading U.S. business schools responded to World War II. All shrank as students and faculty were drafted, most innovated in fairly traditional ways while still maintaining existing activities alongside of war-time innovations, and some pushed forward long-standing institutional change. One school choose a different path, shutting all peacetime programs as it fully committed not only to helping win a global war but, just as importantly, to forging a lasting peace—the long-term economic prosperity that followed the war. The lessons we can draw from academic leaders from nearly eighty years ago are apt today.

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Authors & Contributors
Stadler, Christian
Eisinger, Jesse
Jason Vuic
Whittington, Richard
Wilson, Mark R.
Hyman, Louis
Concepts
Business history
Comparison
World War II
Technological innovation
Business and politics--United States
Business enterprises
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
19th century
Places
United States
Great Britain
Europe
Canada
Japan
Germany
Institutions
New Deal (1933-1939)
United States. Department of Justice
Twentieth Century Fund
United States. Securities and Exchange Commission
International Business Machines Corporation
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