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The Future of the MBA: Designing the Thinker of the Future
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.
The Future of the MBA provides a sorely needed detailed and systematic review of the major contemporary debates on management education. At the same time, it makes a striking new proposal that will certainly have an impact in business 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. Moldoveanu and Martin, both involved in the greatly respected integrative business education program at the Rotheman School of Management, provide a guide on how to design a reliable integrated program for management students. One of the main assets of the book is that it relies not just on speculative thinking, but on real life experience, and that it also includes case studies that will appeal to practicing managers. As an authoritative reference on MBA education, it will appeal to faculty and staff of business schools,
as well as students in related fields like education and public policy.
The Future of the MBA provides a sorely needed detailed and systematic review of the major contemporary debates on management education. At the same time, it makes a striking new proposal that will certainly have an impact in business 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. Moldoveanu and Martin, both involved in the greatly respected integrative business education program at the Rotheman School of Management, provide a guide on how to design a reliable integrated program for management students. One of the main assets of the book is that it relies not just on speculative thinking, but on real life experience, and that it also includes case studies that will appeal to practicing managers. As an authoritative reference on MBA education, it will appeal to faculty and staff of business schools,
as well as students in related fields like education and public policy.
- GenresBusiness
158 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2008
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June 21, 2008
What will the future MBA look like? Before answering, here's another one: what do we want out of an MBA? This book goes into a largely academic monologue about this, written for other professors. The frequent usage of the words ontic, ontological, epistemological, and hermeneutics reminded me of the Sokal Affair, where one physicist wrote a paper (available at http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/so... ) and used shock-and-awe tactics to convince people that he knew what he was talking about.
Language aside, the authors do bring up good points. One is that business does not need to be wholly scientific. The scientific method is designed for basic sciences, for they are the foundation. If the foundation is not strong, how can one expect derivative works to be strong as well? You must have faith in your building blocks! However, business (nor sociology or game theory) are building blocks. They are the buildings! Different purposes demand different approaches.
Because business is not a science, it doesn't need to try to imitate other fields. Also, other fields should know their place before they toss stones in glass houses. This XKCD strip illustrates this well: http://xkcd.com/435/
Second point: Valuing efficiency before effectiveness, when the world rewards effectiveness, can result in academics doing their thing...yet needing funding from outside, benevolent sources in order to survive. If they cannot feed themselves, then they must become pets.
This and other topics turn otherwise dry food into a vitamin. Yes, it's dry...but it's good for you, so eat it.
Language aside, the authors do bring up good points. One is that business does not need to be wholly scientific. The scientific method is designed for basic sciences, for they are the foundation. If the foundation is not strong, how can one expect derivative works to be strong as well? You must have faith in your building blocks! However, business (nor sociology or game theory) are building blocks. They are the buildings! Different purposes demand different approaches.
Because business is not a science, it doesn't need to try to imitate other fields. Also, other fields should know their place before they toss stones in glass houses. This XKCD strip illustrates this well: http://xkcd.com/435/
Second point: Valuing efficiency before effectiveness, when the world rewards effectiveness, can result in academics doing their thing...yet needing funding from outside, benevolent sources in order to survive. If they cannot feed themselves, then they must become pets.
This and other topics turn otherwise dry food into a vitamin. Yes, it's dry...but it's good for you, so eat it.
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