Content written by Michael Horn and published by Forbes. MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: For nearly two decades, Clayton Christensen of the Harvard Business School has been predicting that disruptive innovations would impact management education—and that even the likes of the Harvard Business School would feel their might. As recent headlines attest, that no longer feels … [Read more...]
The Innovator’s Dilemma Hits Higher Ed
Content written by Alana Dunagan and published by the Wall Street Journal. Extracted Content: Last month’s announcement that Indiana’s Purdue University would acquire the for-profit Kaplan University shocked the world of higher education. The Purdue faculty are up in arms. The merger faces a series of regulatory obstacles. And it’s unclear whether the “New U,” as the entity is temporarily … [Read more...]
Online MBA programs and the threat of disruptive innovation
Abstract Online MBA programs are examined through the lens of disruptive innovation theory. Disruptive innovations appear at first to be inferior to the level acceptable to the consumers of the products offered by incumbents, targeting an audience ignored by the latter; as they improve, challengers can challenge market share. Using data from the 2011–2012 US News and World Report survey of online … [Read more...]
Disruptive Innovation Poses Future Jobs For MBAs | BusinessBecause
4/16/14 A jovial expression formed on Steve Blank’s face as he raised the iPhone above his head. He was pocking fun at the mobile market, dominated by a handful of brands. Away from the graduation ceremony at ESADE Business School, held in Barcelona, he has been at the centre of disruptive innovation. Steve, the serial Silicon Valley entrepreneur and father of the lean start-up movement, had … [Read more...]
Those who can’t, teach | The Economist | Schumpeter
2/8/14 Business schools are better at analysing disruptive innovation than at dealing with it IN EVERY profession there are people who fail to practise what they preach: dentists with mouths full of rotten teeth, doctors who smoke 40 a day, accountants who forget to file their tax returns. But it is a rare profession where failure to obey its own rules is practically a condition of entry. Business … [Read more...]
The Business School is not Dead | MacroFinance
2/6/14 An article from latest Schumpeter, the Economist column on business and economics, discusses the state of business schools today. It is not pleasant. The writer says that like doctors who smoke, and dentists with rotten teeth, the business school has professors who constantly flout their own rules: …it is a rare profession where failure to obey its own rules is practically a condition of … [Read more...]