From Techne to Paideia: Upgrading Business Education from I. - Striving for Higher Purpose

Abstract

The first business schools, which appeared in the nineteenth century in Europe and then began to proliferate as the Industrial Revolution spread to the United States – notably in the early years of the last century – were set up to train the cohorts of managers needed to fill executive positions at companies (Kaplan, 2014). Their guiding principles can be traced to the Greek philosophical concept of techne, a term referring to technical education in classical Athens (Parry, 2020).