Originally published as Journal of Management Development Volume 24 Number 9, 2005
ISBN: 1 84544 801 4
Guest Edited by: Eric Cornuel
This high profile Special Issue is an attempt to gather a number of opinions and visions from leaders in the field of business education.
Business schools are an essential component of market economies and optimizing their competitiveness, relevance and performance is of the utmost importance. This Special Issue includes papers by Gabriel Hawawini, Dean of INSEAD, Peter Lorange, Nestlé Professor at IMD, Angel Cabrera, President of Thunderbird, Garvin School of International Management, Paul Verhaegen, Dean of RSM, Erasmus University and Eric Cornuel, Director General and CEO of the EFMD.
Contents:
The future of business schools
In rapidly developing markets the traditional business school model will most likely survive, assuming that it can be scaled up successfully to meet strong but standard demand for management education. In mature countries it will have to evolve to satisfy a more complex environment with peculiar demands from both students and their employers.
Strategy means choice: also for today's business school!
Leading business schools must be demand-oriented, must listen to customers-cum-executives and corporations, should undertake research that points towards thought leadership, and should work with the business world through lifelong learning networks.
Professionalizing global management for the twenty-first century
This article seeks to argue that global management should be considered by practitioners, educators, regulators and society at large as a true professional discipline. While in its current form it may not meet all the defining criteria of a profession, true professionalism is the best guiding principle as progress is made.
Academic talent: Quo vadis?
This article provides insight into the relevant factors for faculty recruitment and retention that can help leadership of business schools to design and implement a tailored policy to recruit and retain academic talent in a highly competitive and international market.
The role of business schools in society
This paper is an analysis of the functions of business schools and management faculties in universities. It leads one to observe that they appear above all as places busy “reproducing” or “miming” reality. Where science faculties describe, management teaching establishments imitate.
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