The Business School In The Twenty-first Century: Emergent Challenges And New Business Models

The Business School in the Twenty-First Century Questions about the status, identity and legitimacy of business schools in the modern university system continue to stimulate debate among deans, educational policy makers and commentators. In this book, three world experts share their critical insights on management education and new business school models in the US, Europe and Asia, on designing the business school of the future, and how to make it work. They look at how the business school is changing and focus in particular on emergent global challenges and innovations in curricula, professional roles, pedagogy, uses of technology and organisational delineations. Set within the context of a wider discussion about management as a profession, the authors provide a systematic, historical perspective, analysing major trends in business school models, and reviewing a wealth of current literature, to provide an informed and unique perspective that is firmly grounded in practical and experimental analysis. howard thomas is Dean and LKCSB Chair in Strategic Management at the Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University. He was Dean of Warwick Business School (2000–10) and, prior to this, he was Dean of the College of Commerce and Business Administration at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1991–2000). peter lorange is President of the Lorange Institute of Business, Zurich, and is one of the world’s foremost business school academics. He is Professor of Strategy at IMD, Switzerland, and was the President of IMD (1993–2008). Prior to this, he was President of the Norwegian Business School (BI) in Oslo. jagdish sheth is the Charles H. Kellstadt Chair of Marketing in the Goizueta Business School at Emory University, Atlanta, where he won the school’s Global Innovation Award in June 2008. Professor Sheth is an internationally recognised business consultant and has been an educator for more than forty years. The Business School in the Twenty-First Century Emergent Challenges and New Business Models howard thomas peter lorange jagdish sheth University Printing House, Cambridge CB2 8BS, United Kingdom Cambridge University Press is part of the University of Cambridge. It furthers the University’s mission by disseminating knowledge in the pursuit of education, learning and research at the highest international levels of excellence. Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9781107013803 © Howard Thomas, Peter Lorange and Jagdish Sheth 2013 This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published 2013 Printed in the United Kin