Reinventing management education

Reinventing management education has been the prime mission of my colleague, Professor Henry Mintzberg, over the last 15 years. His book, Managers, not MBAs, created quite a stir when it was published in 2005. The first half was critical of MBA education, the second half of the book talked about how a consortium of five business schools set about changing management education for practicing managers.

A little over 15 years ago, Mintzberg set out with a group of like-minded faculty at Montreal's Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University to find other business schools with the 'guts' to challenge the orthodoxy of business education of the time. As Mintzberg and others spoke of what they hoped to do, concurring academics emerged and the International Masters Programme in Practicing Management (IMPM) ensued. Lancaster University in the UK, insead in France, a consortium in Japan and Korea, and the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIM-B), formed the partnership, which continues to evolve today. INSEAD and our partners in Japan and Korea have been replaced with others in China and Brazil, to reflect the new dynamics in the business world.

IIM-B and our wonderful colleagues there have served as module directors and cycle directors in the IMPM, accompanying participants to all five modules and contributing mightily to the innovative approaches that make up the International Masters in Practicing Management and the programmes that have spun from it.

Let me list a few of those approaches that Indian readers will recognise, and how the spirit of India can be found in them...

-Article by Karl Moore

Read full article: Business India, November 13, 2011