Business Education in 21st Century - A Summary from Harvard

Below is the preamble to an 80 minute live video presentation made at the Harvard's Centenary Global Business Summit on bsuiness education in 21st Century. In addition, you can download an executive summary of the lecture here. Overview On the whole, MBA programs are in decline. Their value is being questioned, and they are seen as overly emphasizing analytics rather than skill development and experiences. Deans, executives, and recruiters identified four main areas where current MBA programs are falling short: leadership; globalization; communication/presentation skills; and problem identification in ambiguous environments. In response, MBA programs are innovating and experimenting to change the MBA experience, and to help business education regain its relevance and value. They are changing their curricula and are attempting to make the learning experience more interactive, engaging, global, and experiential.

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The Professional Practising Philosopher at a Business School

This transcript of an interview with John Armstrong, Philosopher in Residence, at Melbourne Business School conducted by Alan Saunders's Philosophers Zone programme on the ABC suggests the possibility of a business school syllabus that deals in the history and philosophy of ideas. Armstrong says a business school can offer an environment in which questions such as What makes a good business? What makes a business career successful in a broader sense rather than just economics; What are the bigger images of success in life? can be geuninely explored and the reaction from the participants in his programmes has offered rcih learnings from both sides!!

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Leadership through the crisis and after survey - McKinsey Quarterly

An interesting report on leadership during the crisis from McKinseys. According to survey, executives have markedly changed their leadership styles in the past year;but not their views on which ones will help companies most in the long term. Many of the most needed leadership styles, now and in the future, are those used more frequently by women than by men.

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Corporate Universities, Higher Education and the Future: Emerging Policy Issues

This is genuinely interesting and indepth paper, regardless of all its biases, prepared by the Australian Commonwealth Department of Youth Sport and Education in 2000 on the evolution and working componets of corporate universities in Australia. It is worth reading this paper against the current failure of university business schools.

The Dance of Leadership

The Creative Skills Training Council has recently launch a series of Global Conversations led by Global Leaders in the area of creative skills training and development. September's conversation was with Professor Bob Denhardt

Denhardt is an internationally known speaker and writer on leadership and organizational change and is Lincoln Professor of Leadership and Ethics and Director of the School of Public Affairs at Arizona State University and a Past President of the American Society for Public Administration, a nationwide organization of academics and practitioners in the field of public administration at all levels of government. He is also a member of the prestigious National Academy of Public Administration.

The Dance of Leadership is therefore hardly the title of a book you would expect from somebody with this background. It is however the best and most accessible work I have read on the nexus betwen arts and leadership.

Based on Professor Denhardt's most recent book, The Dance of Leadership. the CSTC Global Conversation focuses on the art of leadership, employing material from art, music, and especially dance to discover new ways of thinking about leadership and new ways of sharpening your own focus in this area.