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DEANS IN CRISIS

Published: 12 June 2009

Henry Mintzberg, Desautels Faculty of Management professor at º«¹úÂãÎè and a long-term critic of the traditional US MBA model, is typically outspoken, saying the pedagogy and structure of US MBA programmes need to change. "US business schools just don't get it. They keep trying to fix what they have already got," Prof Mintzberg said. He argues that the case method, pioneered by Harvard and taught in most US schools, teaches decision making that is inappropriate for younger students, who increasingly make up the population in the US MBA classroom. In the Harvard class of 2008, for example, more than two-thirds of the students had graduated from undergraduate programmes in the previous four years. Prof Mintzberg goes further by arguing that innovation in management education is no longer being created in the US but in Europe. They [US schools] don't create managers, they create hubris. And they will not willingly change. US business schools have been riding a wave... short of going bankrupt or their applications dropping to zero, they won't change.

, June 8, 2009

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