Robert Aaron Gordon: Professional

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“The majority of students studying for the master's degree in business are enrolled in makeshift programs which are generally unsatisfactory… Business administration gets a much larger portion of poor students and a smaller percentage of the best students than do the traditional professional fields.”

Robert Aaron Gordon

Robert A. Gordon and James E. Howell. Higher education for business. 1959

“Merely professionalizing the board of directors is not enough to achieve competent business leadership and at the same time the necessary independent check on executives.”

Robert Aaron Gordon

Source: Business Leadership in the Large Corporation (1945), p. 347

“This pioneer work, written for both the professional economist and the businessman, has become a classic in its field. It is a detailed examination of the structure of the large business corporation in relation to its actual economic functioning. Because Gordon views the corporation not as an external institution but as organized human activity, his emphasis is on the personal and volitional elements in leadership, or how businessmen actually shape their practices. His analysis is based on a formidable mass of case material and statistical data”

Robert Aaron Gordon

Abstract
Business Leadership in the Large Corporation (1945)

“The more active working directors become, the more closely involved they resemble the executives now responsible for providing business leadership. A full-time working director is merely another official who is also a director. Wide adoption of the proposal for professional directors, particularly if management is able to select the directors itself, may merely make general the situation now found in some companies in which only the executive group is represented on the board.”

Robert Aaron Gordon

Source: Business Leadership in the Large Corporation (1945), p. 346-7

“Except for specialists such as market analysts and the like, economists as a professional group have had surprisingly little influence on businessman.”

Robert Aaron Gordon

Source: Business Leadership in the Large Corporation (1945), p. 259, footnote 26