RETHINKING THE MBASrikant m. Dayar, David A. Gravin, Patrick G. Cullen

Need for MBA programs to innovate and change Gaining a global perspective Developing leadership skills Honing integration skills Recognizing organizational realities and

implementing effectively Acting creatively and innovatively Thinking critically and communicating clearly Understanding the role, responsibilities and

purpose of business Understanding the limits of methods and

markets

Content

Pedagogy

Architecture

Purpose

trend

Required responses Increasing the percentage of international

students and faculty at the school Increasing the global content of functional

courses Creating integrative global management

courses Developing international exchange programs Organizing treks and immersions that take

students abroad for several weeks or months Offering global field studies and projects Establishing global research centers Building an overseas campus

Teaching integration Giving students responsibility for integrating

across a portfolio of functional courses Embedding integrative thinking in required

functional courses Creating capstone courses with a general

management point of view Developing an integrated curriculum Organizing the curriculum around integrative

thinking skills

Kolb’s experiential learning model Concrete experience

Reflective observation

Abstract conceptualization

Active experimentation

Institutional responses From organize, incremental curriculum changes to

planned, large-scale redesign From a focus on several unrelated themes to a broad

unifying purpose From a traditional sequence of courses to a more radical

repositioning of topics From minor variations on existing courses to novel and

innovative course content From rigid requirements to greater flexibility and

customization From loose integration to a tight coupling of courses From pedagogies based on large classroom lectures and

case discussions to field work, experiential learning, small-group activities, and even one-on-one instruction

ACS Model Assessment

Challenge

Support

knowing-doing-being

Chicago manual of style Roger’s thesauri online A plain English handbook: how to create clear SEC

Disclosure documents Reflections on reasoning by Raymond Nickerson The art of deception by Nicholas Capaldi Reinventing the Bazaar: a natural history of

markets by John Mcmillan Blink: the power of thinking without thinking by

Malcolm Gladwell The end of poverty: economic possibilities for our

times by Jeffrey Sachs