23.11.2009
The Future of Business Schools
Author Rakesh Khurana fields questions about the role of B-schools in the financial crisis, the professionalization of management, and needed reforms. The economic crisis is putting the spotlight on business schools. Some critics pin the blame for the economic implosion on business school programs, citing MBAs who played key roles in the crisis. And just about everyone seems to have an opinion about it. But no one seems to know for sure what the future should look like for business schools either. The economic crisis is putting the spotlight on business schools. Some critics pin the blame for the economic implosion on business school programs, citing MBAs who played key roles in the crisis. And just about everyone seems to have an opinion about it. But no one seems to know for sure what the future should look like for business schools either. Rakesh Khurana (RakeshKhurana), Harvard Business School professor and author of From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession (Princeton University Press, 2007), knows the history of the MBA better than most, and has specific ideas about what the future of the degree should look like. At a live chat on May 22, Khurana answered questions from BusinessWeek reporter Francesca Di Meglio (FrancescaBW) and the public about where business schools have gone wrong and how they can improve. Find edited excerpts of the conversation on businessweek.com: http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/content/may2009/bs20090526_498100.htm |
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