Book review: From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession Rakesh Khurana. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press,2007. 542 pp. £24.95 (hbk). ISBN 9780691120201 The Business School and the Bottom Line Ken Starkey and Nick Tiratsoo. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,2007. 252 pp. £25.00 (hbk). ISBN 9780521865111

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