The Future of the MBA: Designing the Thinker of the Future

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The Future of the MBA: Designing the Thinker of the Future

Mihnea C. Moldoveanu and Roger L. Martin

Published in print: 2008 Published Online:

October 2011

ISBN: 9780195340143 eISBN: 9780199851775 Item type: book

Publisher: Oxford University Press DOI: 10.1093/

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The MBA is probably the hottest ticket among the current university graduate degree offerings—every year, more than 120,000 students enroll in MBA programs in the United States, and the estimates in Europe do not lag far behind. In addition, job prospects have never looked

better for business-school graduates; corporations are hiring more business-school graduates every year, and compensating them more handsomely. This book is a review of the major contemporary debates on management education. At the same time, it makes a proposal that will certainly have an impact in business schools: that managers need to develop a series of qualitative tacit skills which could be appropriately developed by integrative curricula brought from different disciplines, including sociology, philosophy, and other social sciences. The book's authors, both involved in the integrative business-education program at the Rotheman School of Management, provide a guide on how to design a reliable integrated program for management students.

The Development of Managers

John F. Wilson and Andrew Thomson

in The Making of Modern Management: British Management in Historical Perspective

September 2007

ISBN: 9780199261581 eISBN: 9780191718588 Item type: chapter

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This chapter examines the development, education, and training

of managers in Britain. It reviews national education and training

institutions from basic education to universities and professional

institutions, and from functional, and especially technical, skills to

general management. It reflects a key theme: the slow transition

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to professionalism. Another main theme is that education reflects and reinforces some of the cultural factors underlying attitudes to management, since it is also an indicator of social status, a sifting mechanism into careers, and a selection process both for students and employers. The main providers of development are examined: in-house training, consultants, professional institutes, and business schools. In addition, there is an important demand dimension, namely, the lack of demand for professional managers, which was the single most important factor in the slow transition to professionalism.

The Contemporary University, 1978 to the Present

John W. Boyer

in The University of Chicago: A History

Published in print: 2015 Published Online: May 2016ISBN: 9780226242514 eISBN: 9780226242651 Item type: chapter

Publisher: University of Chicago Press DOI: 10.7208/

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This chapter highlights major themes of the previous chapters up to the current day. It explores the work of Hanna Gray in rebuilding university finances and fundraising in the 1980s and in sustaining the intellectual luster of the faculty. It also chronicles the very controversial reforms initiated by Hugo Sonnenschein to expand the College, a process that university leaders then accelerated after 2000, making the College today the largest single unit of the University of Chicago. The chapter explores the history of the Law School and Business School as examples of the emergence of a special kind of interdisciplinary professional research culture in the professional schools at Chicago that came to characterize Chicago after the 1950s. The chapter also explores the next stages of Chicago’s relationship with its neighbourhood and the city more broadly, using the history of the Charter School project and the Urban Education Institute as examples of new forms of university-civic engagement.

Finally, the chapter concludes with a discussion on the contemporary value culture of the University, as exemplified in two major interventions of the 1950s and 1960s—the Kalven Report and the Redfield-Singer civilizations project.

Spreading the Gospel of Change

in The Roots, Rituals, and Rhetorics of Change: North American Business Schools After the Second World War

Published in print: 2011 Published Online: June 2013ISBN: 9780804776165 eISBN: 9780804778916 Item type: chapter

Publisher: Stanford University Press DOI: 10.11126/

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This chapter examines the spread of the vision for change in business schools and management education in North America in the 1950s.

It describes major developments in four different leading business schools including Harvard Business School, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, and the Stanford Graduate School of Business. This chapter also considers the evidence for diffusion of the changes through the

whole population of business schools and the relevance of the changes in North America for the development of business schools in other parts of the world.

The Lessons of History

in The Roots, Rituals, and Rhetorics of Change: North American Business Schools After the Second World War

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This chapter sums up the key findings of this study on the reform of business schools in North America during the period from 1945 to 1970. It describes the challenges faced by the advocates of reform and suggests that the 1950s and 1960s can be considered as a golden age in business schools. It explains that by the 1970s business schools became more committed to fundamental research and to managerial professionalism and increased their esteem within university cultures.

Research on Business Schools: Themes, Conjectures, and Future Directions

Ulrich Hommel and Howard Thomas

in The Institutional Development of Business Schools

December 2014

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The purpose of this chapter is to review the current state of the literature by identifying the main research themes, by examining the contributions within each theme, and by discussing the directions and challenges

of future work. The main aim of this chapter is to relate the practice-

informed discussion of these issues with the corresponding academic

literature. Treatments of the historical evolution of business schools,

their governance, identity and legitimacy are used as a backbone to

the assessment. Another objective of this chapter is to highlight the

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commonalities and complementarities of these different strands of the business school literature, which will serve as a strong encouragement for more interdisciplinary work, going forward. Examples are the

measurement of business school performance (including the role of rankings and accreditations) as well as the impact of technological change and widening market boundaries on business school behaviour.

Georges F. Doriot: 1899–1987: Dream Builder

Edward Morris

in Wall Streeters: The Creators and Corruptors of American Finance

Published in print: 2015 Published Online: May 2016ISBN: 9780231170543 eISBN: 9780231540506 Item type: chapter

Publisher: Columbia University Press DOI: 10.7312/

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The chapter describes Georges Doriot and the formation of the American Research and Development Company, the world’s first venture capital firm.

The Institutional Development of Business Schools

Andrew M. Pettigrew, Eric Cornuel, and Ulrich Hommel (eds)

December 2014

ISBN: 9780198713364 eISBN: 9780191781773 Item type: book

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In recent times, the fastest growing part of the higher education system has been business schools. There has been an established set of

university-based business schools in the U.S.A. since the early part of the twentieth century. Growth has come in Europe from the 1960s to the 1990s and in Australasia and Asia over the past 20 years. This growth has inevitably attracted the interest of those both applauding and sceptical of these developments and an increasing amount of scholarly literature on business schools has appeared. The purpose of this book is to assess the character and quality of selected research themes on the study of business schools and to articulate a forward- looking research agenda for the study of business schools as institutions.

This book offers novel empirical findings on change and development in

business schools. It looks at the causes and consequences of the ranking

and branding wars around business schools, in particular, and higher

education systems more generally. The book also offers a critique of

some of the intellectual, professional and economic challenges facing

business schools in the contemporary world.

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Business Schools Inside the Academy: What Are the Prospects for Interdepartmental Research Collaboration?

Ewan Ferlie, Graeme Currie, Julie Davies, and Nora Ramadan in The Institutional Development of Business Schools

December 2014

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This chapter reports an exploratory investigation into inter-disciplinary Mode 1 research occurring between university-based U.K. business schools and other local academic departments: an arena that has not received sufficient attention in the business school literature. To this end, reported patterns of interdepartmental research collaboration are first examined. Findings suggest that, except for economics, the number of reported ‘high collaboration’ areas appear to be modest. Second, as a strategic exemplar, research interaction between business schools and medical schools is further examined via an institutional audit. Two distinct subgroups of ‘collaborative’ and ‘stand alone’ business schools are reported. Finally, two mini case studies of collaborative interaction between business schools and medical schools are presented to uncover the conditions and processes accompanying collaborative research

relations. This exploratory study concludes by elaborating a forward- looking research agenda in this important area, which has so far been neglected in the business school academic literature.

The Rhetoric of Professionalism

in The Roots, Rituals, and Rhetorics of Change: North American Business Schools After the Second World War

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The Future of the MBA: Designing the Thinker of the Future

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