Table of Contents for Business School and the Noble Purpose of the Market

Business School and the Noble Purpose of the Market
Correcting the Systemic Failures of Shareholder Capitalism
Andrew J. Hoffman

List of Illustrations and Tables

Preface: Why I Am Writing This Book Now

PART I: Rethinking the Purpose of Business Education

1.BUSINESS SCHOOLS ARE BROKEN: It's Time to Fix Them

The Market's Failures in Our Natural and Social Environments

The Market Can Be Corrected to Fix These Failures

Business Education Is not Rising to the Challenge

How Did Business Schools Lose Their Way

It's Time to Rejuvenate Business Education

Education That Is Both Business-Centric and Market-Centric

2.THE IMPLICATIONS FOR STUDENTS

Today's Students Are Different

Get the Most Out of Your Education Today

Bring Your Whole Self to Business Education

Advocate for Tomorrow's Students

3.THE ROLE OF FACULTY AND ADMINISTRATORS

Recommit to the Reasons Why You Chose to Enter Academia

Become an "Elder

The Time Is Now: Students Are Ready and Waiting

PART II: Capitalism, Business, and the Market: The Old Paradigm and the New

4.THE COMING END OF SHAREHOLDER CAPITALISM

A Short History of American Capitalism

The Failures of Shareholder Capitalism

A New Capitalism Will Emerge from the Old

5.BRINGING ADAM SMITH INTO THE PRESENT: Reexamining the Fundamentals of Capitalism

The Foundations of Capitalism

Enduring Critiques of Capitalism

Support and Critique of Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century

It's Time to De-Mythologize the Free Market and the Invisible Hand

Train Business Leaders to Be Stewards of the Market

6.ALTERNATIVE CAPITALISMS AROUND THE WORLD

Two Categories of Market Economies

Differentiating Facets of Market Economies

The Nordic Model

Views of Capitalism Across the Political Spectrum

Our Current Problems Are Not Endemic to Capitalism

7.THE PURPOSE OF THE FIRM: It's Not to Make Shareholders Rich, It's to Serve Customers and Society

The View of the Firm from Economics

The View of the Firm from Law

The View of the Firm from Sociology and Management Practice

Why Is the View from Economics so Dominant

Redefining the Purpose of the Firm

Stakeholder Capitalism

The Tyranny of Shareholder Primacy

PART III: The Crucial Role of Government in the Marketplace: Corporate Political Responsibility, Constructive Lobbying, and a New Role for Government

8.HOW MONEY CORRUPTS HEALTHY GOVERNMENT AND DEMOCRACY: Why the Corporation Is Not a "Natural Person"

A Brief History of Corporate Personhood

The Citizens United Decision

The Basis for Citizens United

The Effects of Citizens United

Our Founders' Fear: Artificial Legal Entities with Perpetual Life

9.THE NECESSARY AND CONSTRUCTIVE ROLE OF BUSINESS IN POLICYMAKING . . . and the Need for Guardrails

Lobbying: The Fifth Estate

A Short History of Lobbying

Today's Complex Battleground for Influence

Cynicism and Disenchantment

A Voluntary Solution: Corporate Political Responsibility

A Mandatory Solution: Insulating Government from Corporate Power

Political Skills Needed for Twenty-First-Century Business

10.THE NECESSARY AND CONSTRUCTIVE ROLE OF THE GOVERNMENT IN THE MARKET: Not More or Less Government, the Right Level of Government

Early Views of the Role of Government in the Market

The Public's Negative View of Government's Role in the Market

Towards a More Collaborative (and Realistic) Partnership

A New Role for Government in a Twenty-First-Century World

Markets Do Not Work Without the Government . . . and Effective Policies Work Best in Concert with the Private Sector

PART IV: Business School Built on a Balanced Curriculum

11.OUTDATED BUSINESS SCHOOL PRINCIPLES AND CONCEPTS: Efficiency, Value, Prosperity, and Metrics

Technology Alone Will Not Solve Society's Challenges

Rethinking What Business Strives For: Efficiency, Value, Prosperity, and Metrics

Reimagining How Business Provides Benefit: Competition and Trade

Reexamining Limits on the Market: Growth and Consumption

Bringing Systems Thinking into Business Education

A New Kind of Business Curriculum

12.THE NOBLE CALLING OF BUSINESS AND BUSINESS EDUCATION

The Values in Today's Business Schools

Where These Values Lead Us Astray

Today's Business Students Are Changing the Face of Business Education

Envisioning a New Set of Values to Guide Business Education

Helping Business Students Find Their Purpose and Calling

The Positive Outcomes of Finding a Calling in Management

Make the Pursuit of a Calling and Purpose the Norm

A New Kind of Business School

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Notes

Index

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