The Applicant Pool Increased At 57 % Of Business Schools...

In 2015, the applicant pool increased at 57% of business schools worldwide (Gellman). Today, a Masters of Business Administration defines a businessperson and unlocks the doors to the financial world. Modern business hinges on education, but when formal schooling was not widely available, artists considered other factors integral to a flourishing businessman and financial success. Authors, playwrights, and filmmakers recognized the value of formal education, but imagined experience, social dexterity, and observation as the bedrock of economic prosperity. If You Know Not Me You Know Nobody, Roxana, and Working Girl depict a menagerie of educational backgrounds. Although she is literate and skilled in conversation, Roxana has received no formal education in business. In Post-Renaissance England, Thomas Gresham would most likely have attended only grammar school and apprenticed with a businessman. By far, the characters in Working Girl are the most formally schooled. Tess graduated from business school with honors, and Jack Trainor received Ivy League degrees. Despite varying levels of knowledge and education, these characters are economically successful, suggesting that financial security comes from other dimensions of human knowledge. Through Thomas Gresham and Hobson, Thomas Heywood argues that fiscal education is based on observation, experience, and the ability to assimilate economic innovation with traditional power structures. Walking through Dr. Nowell’s gallery,