Rethinking Management Education And Its Models

In their book, The Business School In The Twenty-first Century, Howard Thomas, Peter Lorange and Jagdish Sheth share insights on designing the business school of the future and how to make it work.

... For many years, the most strident and important critic of management education has been Professor Henry Mintzberg. In his book Managers, Not MBAs, which summarises and synthesizes much of his thinking, he states in his preface:  “I was simply finding too much of a disconnect between the practice of management that was becoming clearer to me and what went on in classrooms, my own included, intended to develop managers.” More importantly, he argues that management is not a science: “Management certainly applies science: managers have to use all the knowledge they can get, from the sciences and elsewhere. But management is more of an art, based on ‘insight’, ‘vision’,  ‘intuition’.” - See more at: http://www.businessworld.in/news/b-school/surveys/rethinking-management-...

Read full article: BW BusinessWorld, November 15, 2014