The thesis of this paper is that, although the classroom is arguably a place where the contradiction between CMS and the aspirations of (would-be) managers is particularly salient and potentially conflictive, it can also be a place where some of these conflicts and contradictions can be...

This paper studies the effects of business school education on manager career outcomes, using evidence from the Engineering, Science, and Management War Training (ESMWT), that offered MBA-style education to middle managers and production supervisors working at U.S. war industrial facilities...