Content written by William Kuechler and Yvonne Stedham and published by the Journal of Management Education. MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: Abstract - Most management classes are taught by modified traditional techniques in which the acquisition of facts and rote skills is primary. However, traditional pedagogies fall short when the desired result is not inculcating … [Read more...] about Management Education and Transformational Learning: The Integration of Mindfulness in an MBA Course
New Cyber Security MBA Programs Help Executives Combat Digital Risks | BusinessBecause
Last year, a cadre of MBA students at a top European business school partnered with elite consultancy firm A.T Kearney to write a study on cyber security for managers. Cyber security — or rather a lack of it — has become a hot topic in business, as cyber criminals have successfully targeted institutions such as Target and JPMorgan Chase. As part of their MBA, the Mannheim Business … [Read more...] about New Cyber Security MBA Programs Help Executives Combat Digital Risks | BusinessBecause
Why NYU’s B-School Teaches Mindfulness | HBR Business Education
One student’s hand went up immediately. “Because you’re from McKinsey and I want to work there,” he replied. The audience laughed. At an event where Chopra was going to talk about the benefits of mindfulness and meditation, the student’s honesty was both refreshing and reflective of the mindset of many business school students: They are focused, they are driven, and they want success. We … [Read more...] about Why NYU’s B-School Teaches Mindfulness | HBR Business Education
Teaching MBAs Aesthetic Agency Through Dance | Organizational Aesthetics
Abstract Within these pages we offer a theoretical argument for how aesthetic reflexivity and agency in management practice can be developed using dance exercises. We build our argument on Polanyi’s concept of tacit knowledge and on simulation theories from the area of embodied cognition. In short, we argue that engaging with dance exercises can give managers new bodily experiences they can use … [Read more...] about Teaching MBAs Aesthetic Agency Through Dance | Organizational Aesthetics
Developing Strategic Thinking in Business Education
Abstract. The new business environment becomes more and more turbulent with rapid and unpredictable changes. Operational management focusing on present issues and profit maximization is not able to look into the future and anticipate market dynamics. Companies need to develop strategic management as an overarching framework able to search into the future and construct strategies for achieving a … [Read more...] about Developing Strategic Thinking in Business Education
Evidence and Experience in Management, Medicine, and more
Let’s start and end with some evidence and experience about “more”—first about bicycling and last about global warming—with that about management and medicine in between. On the right side of the handlebar of your bicycle, you see a little number—let’s say 4—which tells you what gear the back wheel is in. This is evidence. Experience is what you live while cycling in that gear—perhaps that the … [Read more...] about Evidence and Experience in Management, Medicine, and more