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Business schools are at a crossroads, and business itself is suffering from an image problem. Or even a vision problem.
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See, for example, T. T. Ram Mohan, “Crisis: Are B-schools to Blame?”, The Economic Times, 11 June 2009. Also, Philip Delves Broughton (2008) Ahead of the Curve: What They Teach You at HBS, New York: Viking, an unflattering account of his two years in that school’s MBA program.
See Henry Mintzberg (2004) Managers, Not MBAs: A Hard Look at the Soft Practice of Managing and Management Development, San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, for his argument about why he agrees with Drucker, that “Management is a practice … not a science”.
Both the Ford study, Higher Education for Business (New York: Columbia University Press, 1959), and the Carnegie research, The Education of American Businessmen: A Study of University-College Programs in Business Administration (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1959), offer detailed portraits of the management landscape of the time.
Nunzio Quacquarelli, “B-schools Look Beyond Rankings”, Asia Inc., May–June 2007 pp. 81–2.
Ranjay Gulati, “Tent-poles, Tribalism, and Boundary-Spanning: The Rigor-Relevance Debate in Management Research”, Academy of Management Journal, August 2007, pp. 775–82.
Anne Fisher, “The Trouble with MBAs”, Fortune, 30 April 2007 pp. 49–50.
H. J. Leavitt (1989) “Educating Our MBAs: On Teaching What We Haven’t Taught”, California Management Review 31(3): 38–50.
See, for example, Chrystia Freeland, “Doing Well or Doing Good?”, Financial Times, 23 June 2007 Also, Marlene Habib, “MBA 2.0: A Stepping Stone to Tech Management”, Globe and Mail (Canada) 26 March 2008; and Marie Field, “Nonprofit MBAs — No, This Isn’t an Oxymoron”, TopMBA, 2 February 2008.
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Jain, D.C., Golosinski, M. (2011). The Enduring Value of the MBA Degree. In: Canals, J. (eds) The Future of Leadership Development. IESE Business Collection. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230295087_4
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