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The Renaissance We Need in Business Education

Harvard Business Review

Having taught at five business schools over several decades and served as Dean of two, I have come to a conclusion: The educational institutions where our future business leaders are being trained must be recalibrated and transformed dramatically. As originally conceived, they were institutions of practical education.

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The Renaissance We Need in Business Education

Harvard Business Review

Having taught at five business schools and served as Dean of two, I have come to hold one opinion very strongly: The educational institutions where our future business leaders are being trained must be transformed, and transformed dramatically. At the same time, business education needs to return to its roots.

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It’s the Company’s Job to Help Employees Learn

Harvard Business Review

When Frederick Taylor published his pioneering principles of scientific management in 1912, the repetitive and mundane nature of most jobs required employees to think as little as possible. In other words, higher career security is a function of employability, and that in turn depends on learnability. Vincent Tsui for HBR.

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Why Management Ideas Matter

Harvard Business Review

Critics lampoon the latest management buzzwords, labeling them as pretentious and shallow. In truth, though, management has made big strides. We have come a long way from Scientific Management and using a stopwatch to manage performance. Finally, management ideas can be the catalyst for a better future.

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Business Does Not Need the Humanities — But Humans Do

Harvard Business Review

Many a tech titan, critics contend, would have been helped by an extra humanities class, say, or social science course : those staples of liberal arts education meant to prepare future leaders to wrestle with the dilemmas and complexities of human lives and societies. Sometimes it’s just neglect or plain ignorance.

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