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| Author: | Contardo, I. Wensley, R. |
| Title: | The Harvard Business School story: avoiding knowledge by being relevant |
| Journal: | Organization
2004 : MAR, VOL. 11:2, p. 211-231 |
| Index terms: | Business schools Case studies Institutional economics |
| Freeterms: | Storytelling |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | After a century since its foundation, the Harvard Business School (HBS) continues to represent the epitome of general management knowledge. As an academic organization, it is both idiosyncratic and conventional; as an institution, it is admired for its position, longevity and power. Institutional mechanisms that have allowed HBS to organize around a particular set of values and beliefs, which may account for its privileged standing are investigated in this article. It is argued that a complex institution like Harvard is mirrored somewhat in the written text it produces, the case and the case method, which can be deconstructed by "reading" the resulting predicaments in sustaining such a model of knowledge. |
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