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Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

Management education

2014

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Dynamic Capabilities And The Business School Of The Future, Howard Thomas, Peter Lorange, Jagdish Sheth Oct 2014

Dynamic Capabilities And The Business School Of The Future, Howard Thomas, Peter Lorange, Jagdish Sheth

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Business schools need to focus more clearly on their dynamic capabilities in order to re-invigorate and re-develop themselves and their students.


Implementing Liberal Management Education Through The Lens Of The Other, Thomas Estad, Stefano Harney, Howard Thomas May 2014

Implementing Liberal Management Education Through The Lens Of The Other, Thomas Estad, Stefano Harney, Howard Thomas

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The purpose of this paper is to explore the prerequisite conditions for implementing a liberal management education and for fostering ethical students using examples from the core curriculum at Singapore Management University (SMU). Beginning with a reading of the Carnegie Foundation's Rethinking Undergraduate Business Education: liberal learning for the professions (2011), the paper examines the contribution and limits of the findings and recommendations before discussing the place of the liberal arts in the modern university and describing a case study of liberal management education in process at SMU. It concludes with a reading of the work of Emmanuel Levinas and …


Management Education: The Path Behind And The Road Ahead, Howard Thomas May 2014

Management Education: The Path Behind And The Road Ahead, Howard Thomas

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Despite these identity struggles and occasional moments of crisis, business schools have grown in popularity over the years and are resilient to fluctuations in the economy.


Future Scenarios For Management Education, Howard Thomas, Michelle P. Lee, Alexander Wilson May 2014

Future Scenarios For Management Education, Howard Thomas, Michelle P. Lee, Alexander Wilson

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Business schools are facing unprecedented challenges, ranging from financial sustainability in some quarters to waning demand for the MBA to the potentially disruptive impact of massive open online courses. Given these challenges, how might the future of management education unfold? The purpose of this paper is to better understand how leaders in management education perceive these challenges and their likely impact on the evolution of the field. The authors conducted in-depth interviews with 39 experts, the majority of who were in leadership positions at business schools. Each of these in-depth interviews was tape-recorded, transcribed and then content-analysed. The authors asked …