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1st Edition

The Value & Purpose of Management Education Looking Back and Thinking Forward in Global Focus

Edited By Eric Cornuel, Howard Thomas, Matthew Wood Copyright 2022

216 Pages 256 Color Illustrations

by Routledge

Description

Without a doubt, business schools have been a success story in higher education over the last 50 years (the period of EFMD’s existence). Even so, they have come under scrutiny, and attack, over their academic legitimacy and value proposition for business and society. In this book, drawn from a special issue of Global Focus , the EFMD has selected around 25 of the best, most thoughtful short... Read more

Table of Contents

Section 1: The Purpose and Vision of a Business School

1. Why management history matters

Morgan Witzel

2. What Does Business Want from Business Schools?

Sir Richard Lambert

3. Della Bradshaw Interview

Della Bradshaw and George Bickerstaffe

4. Can Business Schools Rescue Business?

Gerard van Schaik

5. Does the DNA of Business Schools Need to Change?

Arnoud De Meyer

6. The future of business schools: shut them down or broaden our horizons?

Ken Starkey and Howard Thomas

Section 2: Business Models and the Paradigm Trap

7. University Challenge

Eric Cornuel

8. The Bologna Effect – The Emerging European Masters Market

Gordon Shenton and Patrice Houdayer

9. A Sustainable Model for Business Schools?

Kai Peters and Howard Thomas

10. The Business of Business Schools

Kai Peters, Howard Thomas and Rick Smith

11. Needed: Academic Triathletes

Santiago Iñiguez

12. Assessing Academics’ Performance

Edeltraud Hanappi-Egger

Section 3: Rigour-Relevance and Business School Impact

13. "Scholarly Impact" and the Co-Production Hypothesis

Andrew Pettigrew

14. Impact: Is it enough just to talk about it?

Michel Kalika and Gordon Shenton

15. Real Learning, Real Impact

Jean-François Manzoni

16. How Being Embedded in Our Region Helps Growth

Thomas Bieger

17. Creating Impact with Purpose

Patricia Bradshaw and Erin Elaine Casey

18. Growing the Impact of Management Education and Scholarship

Laurent Batsch et al

19. Reconnecting with the Business World

Anne S Tsui

20. Intentional Impact from Business Schools

Paul Beaulieu

Section 4: Uncertain Futures and Transformational Change

21. The Past is Not the Future

Charles Handy

22. A Future for Business Education: Why Business as Usual is Bad Business

Chris Pitelis

23. The Future is Blended

Santiago Iniguez

24. Apply Liberally: Towards a Model of Liberal Management Education

Howard Thomas

25. Can They Fix It?

Jordi Canals

26. Casting Light in the Shadows

Johan Roos

27. Where do we go from here?

Editor(s)

Biography

Eric Cornuel is President at EFMD Global.

Howard Thomas was the inaugural Ahmass Fakahany Distinguished Professor of Global Leadership at the Questrom School, Boston University. He is also an Emeritus Professor and former Dean at Singapore Management University and a Senior Advisor at EFMD.

Matthew Wood is Director, Operations and Global Focus Magazine Editor at EFMD Global.

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