Attention Economy


Wednesday, June 5, 2019

MBA's and the Future of Management Education

More Universities Shut Down Traditional M.B.A. Programs as Popularity Wanes

A great 2006 piece: The Management Myth by Mathew Stewart
The Atlantic piece notes -
“What they don’t seem to teach you in business school is that “the five forces” and “the seven Cs” and every other generic framework for problem solving are heuristics: they can lead you to solutions, but they cannot make you think. Case studies may provide an effective way to think business problems through, but the point is rather lost if students come away imagining that you can go home once you’ve put all of your eggs into a two-by-two growth-share matrix.”

Not Leadership Material? Good. The World Needs Followers.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/24/opinion/sunday/not-leadership-material-good-the-world-needs-followers.html

Chinese Philosophy and Harvard University's third most popular course
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/26/can-harvards-most-popular-professor-and-confucius-radically-change-your-life