Great story in the NYT about Bell Telephone in the 1950s launching a liberal arts-oriented learning program to its high potential employees: The Learning Knights of Bell Telephone The sociologist E. Digby Baltzell explained the Bell leaders’ concerns in an article published in Harper’s magazine in 1955: “A well-trained man knows how to answer questions, [...]
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