Comment: Right signals to applicants, wrong incentives for deans: business school rankings and the challenges to management education
Based on the findings by Dewinney, Dowling and Perm-Ajchariyawong, we point out that, while MBA rankings provide useful signals to students about their salary prospects, they also create misleading incentives for business school administrators. The inbuilt bias in favor of the traditional model of business education discourages innovation and therefore stifles responses to major challenges – such as the globalization of the business education market, the advent of life-long education and the need for more relevance to management practice.
The Arts & Leadership: Now That We Can Do Anything, What Will We Do?
Given the dramatic changes taking place in society, the economy, and technology, 21st-century organizations need to engage in new, more spontaneous, and more innovative ways of managing. I investig...
Reflections on Engendering a Sustainable Community Within the Academy
This article discusses views on engendering a sustainable community within the Academy of Management. Statistics are given on diversity within the Academy, which has over 15,000 members from over 90 countries throughout the world. The author feels that, in order for the Academy to foster the true spirit of diversity, it must first broaden its range of offerings and become more welcoming of differences. To build and foster a truly sustainable community, she claims, the members of the Academy must be fully aware of the need to accommodate the diverse aspirations of all interest groups in striving to meet goals. Differences between the Academy's members are listed, including religion, ethnicity, and occupation.