Who should be teaching future MBAs?
O’Toole: Our article has been misrepresented by some people, who think that we’re arguing for CEOs to teach at B-schools. In fact, if that were to happen, we would be worse off than we are. What a business-school faculty really needs is people with a variety of talents and perspectives from different disciplines. Q: What can B-schools do to make the curriculum more relevant? Bennis: One idea I’ve been pushing is to take a look at fast-breaking news. It would be interesting if you could create coursework around a timely topic. Every fall you could take a major issue facing businesses and create a course around that issue with some of your best students and a few faculty members teaching it together. There are several other examples in the article, including broad integrated courses that connect the dots. O’Toole: If you were to take a look at the Enron case, for example, there are accounting, leadership, ethical, regulatory, and cultural elements to it. It’s only when you look at all of
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