Dear Colleagues
Come join us at the Academy Meetings on Friday from 5pm - 7pm!
Disrupt or Be Disrupted: Evidence-based Strategies for Graduate Business Schools
Friday, Aug 9 2013 5:00PM - 7:00PM at WDW Coronado Springs Resort in Durango 1&2
You are ALSO cordially invited to attend a reception sponsored by GMAC immediately after the session.
Friday, Aug 9 from 7-9 p.m. - Coronado Springs Resort, Coronado T (across from Durango 1 & 2).
Over the course of the past 25 years, there have been dramatic shifts in the world of work leading to completely new ways of interacting, sharing, learning, and doing. In today's business world, the norm is relentless change and transformation as businesses strive to keep in front of new competitors and advancements in technology, globalization, and economic fluctuations. Graduate business schools face these same unprecedented pressures and maintaining the status quo or even incremental improvement seems no longer sufficient for institutions that intend to thrive. Deans and other business school leaders, therefore, would be wise to study these and other critical challenges and consider possible responses and changes in light of the best available information and ideas. The purpose of this highly interactive PDW is to discuss the primary challenges facing graduate management education and debate the best ways to respond to them. The foundation for the conversation will be a new edited book to be published by Wiley. The distinguished authors of many of the chapters will present the challenges and possible responses. They will then engage the audience in a discussion of alternative responses.
Brooks C. Holtom, Erich C. Dierdorff, Rachel Ann Edgington, Sara L Rynes, Kenneth G. Brown, Fred