Why Do Business Schools Have Such Little Influence in the Business Community?
Why Do Business Schools Have Such Little Influence in the Business Community? Monday February 4, 2008#spacer{clear:left}#abc #sidebar{margin-top:1.5em}zSB(3,3)From Newmark’s Door: A claim that law, medical, and engineering schools influence their respective professsion more than business schools do. It’s an interesting hypothesis, but more formal investigation is needed. Ph.D. thesis, anyone? But one of the arguments seems clearly correct: Business schools can describe what innovative companies have done: Harvards case study method does just that. But this is, by definition, backward-looking. Business school professors will struggle to tell us what innovators will do next. If they knew, they would surely do it themselves. I believe my school, Ivey has a great deal of inf
