A Liberal Art in Management: The Hartwick Humanities in Management Institute's Enduring Impact

• Jeffrey Nesteruk

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"The goal of studying the liberal arts is to broaden your mind and understanding of the world rather than to train you for a
particular job," as MiriamWebster.com (2014) puts it. Is the social sciences explicitly omitted from this concept of business? Is
business "just" a preprofessional curriculum, and has the liberal arts community always rejected it as a field that lacks both humanities
and social science? The above comment clearly implies a lack of interest in business studies among younger generations, if not an
outright dismissal of the discipline. Even rebranding business studies with the more posh word "management" to describe their core
competencies was, at best, a nebulous replacement. As the twentieth century came to a close, it seemed as if the academic fields of
business and management and the liberal arts would stay completely apart from one another.

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