Making Global MBAs

Andrew Orta is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Catechizing Culture: Missionaries, Aymara, and the “New Evangelization.”  

List of Figures
Acknowledgments

1 • Wall Street Goes to the Ends of the Earth
Masters of the Universe
The MBA Boom and the Refiguring of Global Capitalism
Anthropology and Capitalism
Capitalism, Difference, and the Excess of Culture
An Anthropologist among the MBAs
Organization of the Book

2 • Fast Subjects: The Rituals of MBA Training
Compression and the Paracurriculum
Axioms of Capitalism
Science and Art: Talent and the Management of Excess

3 • Accounting for Business
From Clerks to Managers
Managing the Modern
Managing the Postwar World
Managers Abroad

4 • The Currency of Culture
Discovering Culture with First-Year MBAs
Culture in Context
Culturing the Ugly American
Building a Better International Manager

5 • Managing the Margins
Staging the Global Incompletely
Short-Term Study Abroad

6 • Partial Answers: The Uses of Ethnographic
Capitalist Realism
The (Panic-Inducing) Hold Real Life Has
Inventing the Case Method
Working the Cases

7 • Frontiers of Capitalism
Scaling Difference
Two Parables of Social Entrepreneurship
New Economies Arising
Scaling the MBA

Notes
References
Index