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Charles has pointed out some important elements of Mintzberg's critique of US MBA education. Last year Charles and I set about looking for positive evidence of the diversity of approaches to MBA education in response and we have assembled a lovely collection of fourteen essays that examine the evidence behind some claims of the critics of MBA impacts and an international array of positive examples of innovation in MBA and post-graduate management education.

Please visit our website at  http://management-education.net/rmed5.htm

 to review the table of contents and background of the globally diverse authors contributing to NewVisions of Graduate Management Education by Wankel and DeFillippi..Also please visit the Information Age Publishers exhibit at the Academy of Management meetings next month  and check out our full array of offerings in management education.

Robert DeFillippi

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From: Charles Wankel <wankelc@OPTONLINE.NET>
Reply-To: Management Education and Development Discussion <MG-ED-DV@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU>
To: MG-ED-DV@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
Subject: Mintzberg - our favorite cynic - interview
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 06:54:00 -0400

To help your digestion, I supply this link to a Mintzbergian take on management education.

http://news.moneycontrol.com/india/newsarticle/stocksnews.php?autono=225925

Post your reactions to Mg-Ed-Dv.

 

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Charles Wankel

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Project-based Mgt Ed: http://management-education.net/rmed4.html

 

 

People learn management by focusing on their own experience and learning from their own experience.

 

 

The view of management education developed in the 1950s is business education -- that's not management education at all.

 

 

For innovation, look at the programme on critical management at University of Lancaster. Or the one on purchasing at Bath University. Very innovative teaching.

 

 

you have to diffuse the power and the authority to people who have knowledge on the ground

 

But lots of B- schools do make a big deal about diversity?
Yeah right. They are teaching American management style, and calling it global. An American school that boasts about diversity boasts that 20-30 per cent of its students come from abroad -- maybe 30-35 percent at the most. Any class that has 60-70 per cent Americans, who don't tend to be shy in a classroom, is hardly diverse. If you go to INSEAD (in France), you see real diversity because probably no more than 20 per cent are from any one country. You get international experience there.