Written by: KPMG Published by: KPMG MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: We are in a period in which technologies are at once emerging, resurging and converging. Companies across virtually every sector are positioning themselves to outpace their competition by embracing—and implementing—innovative technology-based business models to create differentiated value. Against this … [Read more...]
Business schools shift to a more sustainable future
Written by: Andrew Jack Published by: Financial Times MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: Business education is starting to diversify beyond teaching traditional skills and profit maximisation. There is, instead, greater focus on social purpose, including sustainability and improved ethics and governance practices. The Financial Times plans to identify and showcase some of the … [Read more...]
A ‘Free’ M.B.A. Sometimes Isn’t Enough to Lure Students
Written by: Kelsey Gee Published by: The Wall Street Journal MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: Arizona State University’s business school used a $50 million donation to bet on a future where its M.B.A. is free. Four years after slashing tuition costs for full-time students to zero, the dean says the cost is still too high for many people. Turns out, luring talented … [Read more...]
How Business Schools Can Help Restore Trust in Capitalism
Written by: Anat Admati Published by: Harvard Business Review MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: Trust in capitalism and big business is low. In a recent survey of Americans, only 25% of people expressed “a lot” or “a great deal” of confidence in big business; half said big business has excessive influence on society. Low trust is especially evident among young … [Read more...]
Death of the business school? How they should look in the future?
Written by: Ashish Sinha Published by: Campus Review MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: Proponents of business education point to the central role that business enterprise has played in the prosperity of nations, lifting millions of people out of poverty and in turn creating a wealthy middle class in many developing nations. Detractors contrarily point to the narrow … [Read more...]
How Columbia’s new dean aims to redefine business education
Written by: Jonathan Moules Published by: Financial Times MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: His first goal as dean is to “significantly” increase the number of joint engineering and business degrees Columbia offers from just a couple at present. “What I would like to do is really redefine business education,” he says. “We need to keep refining our curriculum in order to … [Read more...]