Business Education Discussions

Lessons from golf’s level playing field

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:26:50 +0000

By Gio Valiante

Competition is at the centre of my life, and the three competitive domains I spend most time in are academic, business, and sport (professional golf). Parallels connect all three.

The measure of success in graduate school is grades, in business it’s earnings, and in golf it’s score.

Ignore technology at your peril

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:12:08 +0000

By Robert Galliers

Nicholas Carr published an article in the May 2003 edition of the Harvard Business Review, with the title “IT Doesn’t Matter”. The staff of HBR voted it the best article to appear in the magazine that year. A sequel, “The End of Corporate Computing”, appeared in the Spring 2005 issue of the MIT Sloan Management Review.

It's all the fault of the timetable and the textbook

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:06:23 +0000

By Gerard Hanlon

Both the textbook and the academic timetable, lie at the root of a growing crisis in management education, especially at undergraduate level; one that needs addressing if we are to avert any future economic meltdown and retain any semblance of creative learning in universities and business schools.

Enterprising approach to entrepreneurship

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:51:41 +0000

By Davide Sola

The roads of education and enterprise have traditionally met in business schools. This is something the UK government should have considered before targeting teenagers with its National Enterprise Academy initiative.

In a country such as the UK, where enterprise forms the backbone of the economy and is regarded as something of a national institution,

Forget the MBA, give me experience any day

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:24:30 +0000

By Luke Johnson

I really should like business schools. Once or twice a year I teach a case study about PizzaExpress (a restaurant chain I used to run) at London Business School. Overall I find these occasions stimulating: the students are bright and motivated and tell me the sessions are worthwhile.

You're not really any good until your 40.

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:45:36 +0000

I liked your article.

Biz schools are good but without experience the education can be applied with out knowledge of the facts on the ground.

When I first started work after college in San Francisco the saying was "don't hire a Standford MBA, they can make a million dollar decision but can't write a memo.....and don't want to write memos.

Vital role of the specialised generalist

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:08:25 +0000

By Bruce Schlein

Jack of all trades master of some… from where I sit looking at sustainability issues – environmental and social risks and opportunities – across the company, this is our ideal candidate; one who effectively combines specific expertise needed to develop and execute innovative financial solutions,

The gulf between business schools and reality

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:13:24 +0000

By Ruben Vardanyan

The world has changed dramatically and continues to change rapidly.

In this new reality, the traditional business school format, based on the western template, no longer provides the level of knowledge and quality of education necessary for students and which employers demand.

Finding the balance between teaching and mentoring

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:44:21 +0000

By Ellen Miller

A consequence of the current economic environment is the trend of increasing business school applications and a general desire to seek additional commercially viable skills.

In their promotional literature, business schools often sell their offerings to prospective students in a way in which the mere achievement of the degree may overshadow the experience.

Managers need a different set of tools

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:31:55 +0000

By Jan Muehlfeit

Against a backdrop of corporate failures and mistrust in leadership, are the best and brightest MBA graduates properly equipped to manage a sustainable economy?

Even before the banking collapse and subsequent crisis, it had become clear that new strategic and operational approaches were required to manage a company’s responsibilities in and to society.