Executive Education is Dead As We Know It, Where to from Here?

This is no idle statement. Read the opening statement from the Harvard Business Centenary Global Business Summit "Business Education in 21st Century. ...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... It came as a shock to The Creative Leadership Forum to see our own research so strongly validated on the failure of business school education to provide practical business skills by the most famous business school brand globally. And the trend is not just in America. Since the global financial crisis in November 2008, Australia's leading business schools have had dramatic drops in attendance of up to 70%

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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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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.

Managing with the Brain in Mind

Neuroscience research is revealing the social nature of the human brain and its implications for management. In a high-performance workplace, people’s social needs — for status, certainty, autonomy, relatedness, and fairness — matter more than money.

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