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The Pragmatic Imagination - A History of the Wharton School, 1881-1981 (Hardcover)
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The Pragmatic Imagination - A History of the Wharton School, 1881-1981 (Hardcover)
Series: Anniversary Collection
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As prominent as the Wharton School of Business is today, so was the
Wharton family in the mercantile world of eighteenth-century
Philadelphia. Nineteenth-century scion of this large and wealthy
business family, Joseph Wharton amassed a huge new fortune in his
American Nickel Company and the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, and
through these enterprises helped catapult the nation into the
modern age of industry. In 1881, while still in mid-career, he
contributed part of his accumulated wealth to endow the Wharton
School of Finance and Economy at the University of Pennsylvania.
Wharton's purpose was to prepare the city's young men "of inherited
wealth and capacity" to assume control of the complex economy that
he and his fellow entrepreneurs were then creating. He would have
the university provide that cultural background needed by all
gentlemen of society, while the new Wharton course would instruct
students in those economic experiences necessary for success in the
world of practical affairs. Wharton's investment and instructional
program began the modern tradition of collegiate management
education. Steven A. Sass's The Pragmatic Imagination not only
provides a history of the world's oldest and still one of the most
prestigious schools of management but also offers a fascinating
exploration of the interaction of higher education and economic
activity. The volume illuminates the essential tension in
professional business education-that between utilitarian training
and scholarly speculation-and analyzes the various regimes of
conflict, accommodation, and synergy between these two interests.
Providing the unifying theme of the history is Joseph Wharton's
ambition to create a leadership class for industrial America.
Careful attention is devoted to the various strategies adopted to
achieve this end and to the forces that facilitated or frustrated
the founder's purpose. Essentially an essay on the role of
authority in the development of American culture, The Pragmatic
Imagination carries the history of Joseph Wharton's experiment from
its origins in the ironmaster's entrepreneurial ethos; through the
vigorous Mugwumpery of the 1880s; to the gospel of the Progressive
Era of civic revival and practical education; into the crises of
depression and war; through the flowering of econometrics and
operations research; down to the present-day vogue for the M.B.A.
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