The university has never been a sleek, efficient corporation.
A recent conversation with members gave an impression of the group as, in equal parts, hungry indie band, efficient corporation and missionary initiative.
Trump's supporters have said they welcome the fact he is a businessman, not a politician beholden to special interests, and hope he will run America like an efficient corporation.
He noted that Dell is a remarkably efficient corporation.
As Miguel Patricio, beer giant InBev's Asia CEO, puts it, "The Chinese Communist Party is a ruthlessly efficient corporation".
Yet it is a commonplace even on the non-socialist left that markets should be efficient, that corporations should maximise profits, and that democratic government should set "socially responsible" rules of the game and insure people against market volatility.
Determined to transform Pemex, the state-owned oil company, from a bloated and antiquated monopoly into something more like an efficient multinational corporation, Mexico's president, Vicente Fox, has announced a new slate of directors for the Pemex board that bristles with successful business leaders.
They contend that "where there are different sets of values, however, consensus-based approaches and knowledge sharing are more difficult to sustain" (p. 923) and conclude that the partnership form of governance becomes less efficient relative to public corporations as heterogeneity increases.
Blake's goal is to make the U.S.O.C. run like an efficient and self-reliant corporation answerable only to the bottom line and the top podium.
Then, as now, privatization advocates argued that corporations were more efficient.
