"Business Schools Face Test of Faith." "Is It Time to Retrain B-Schools?" As these headlines make clear, business education is at a major crossroads. For decades, MBA graduates from top-tier schools set the standard for cutting-edge business knowledge and skills. Now the business world has changed, say the authors of Rethinking the MBA, and MBA programs must change with it. Increasingly, managers and recruiters are questioning conventional business education. Their concerns? Among other things, MBA programs aren't giving students the heightened cultural awareness and global perspectives they need. Newly minted MBAs lack essential leadership skills. Creative and critical thinking demand far more attention. In this compelling and authoritative new book, the authors: Document a rising chorus of concerns about business schools gleaned from extensive interviews with deans and executives, and from a detailed analysis of current curricula and emerging trends in graduate business education Provide case studies showing how leading MBA programs have begun reinventing themselves for the better Offer concrete ideas for how business schools can surmount the challenges that come with reinvention, including securing faculty with new skills and experimenting with new pedagogies Rich with examples and thoroughly researched, Rethinking the MBA reveals why and how business schools must define a better pathway for the future.

Srikant M. Datar is the Arthur Lowes Dickinson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard University. A graduate with distinction from the University of Bombay, he received gold medals upon graduation from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, and the Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India.

David A. Garvin is the C. Roland Christensen Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He joined the Business School faculty in 1979 and has since then taught courses in leadership, general management, and operations in the MBA and Advanced Management programs, as well as serving as faculty chair of the School's Teaching and Learning Center.

Patrick Cullen is a Research Associate at Harvard Business School.

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
A Degree in Transition
The State of MBA, Education	p. 13
The Changing MBA Marketplace	p. 17
A Close Look at the Curriculum	p. 43
A Rising Chorus of Concerns	p. 75
Meeting the Challenges of Globalization, Leadership, and Integration	p. 107
Innovations in Pedagogy and Course Design	p. 137
Institutional Responses	p. 167
University of Chicago Booth School of Business	p. 173
Flexibility and the Discipline-Based Approach
INSEAD	p. 197
The Credo of Globalization
The Center for Creative Leadership	p. 217
Leadership Development at the Core
Harvard Business School	p. 239
General Management and the Focus on Practice
Yale School of Management	p. 263
Integration and Large-Scale Change
Stanford Graduate School of Business	p. 293
Customization and Large-Scale Change
Conclusion	p. 321
Business Schools at a Crossroads
Notes	p. 341
Index	p. 359
About the Authors	p. 377
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