Conventional Wisdom

There’s an energy around these topics. Relevant and of concern to many, there is no shortage of thought and perspective about the challenges faced by business schools and the businesses who employ graduates. The Business Education Jam is a time for people to share perspectives and debate new ideas. It is helpful to have conventional wisdom as a starting point for these conversations.

Exploring these selected books, articles, and recent news coverage will provide a strong foundation for relevant and effective Jam conversations. It’s not an exhaustive list by any means – share your recommendations on Twitter using #BizEdJam.

Books
Articles, Reports & Papers
In the News

Jam in the News

  • For the Next 2 Days, Thousands Will Be Online Discussing the Future of Business Education

    – BostInno

  • POV: Addressing the Growing Gap Between Classroom and Career

    – BU Today

  • Boston University bets that jam today means change tomorrow

    – Financial Times

  • Business Education Jam: Let’s Be Cautiously Optimistic

    – Eduvantis

  • Deans & CEOs To Debate Future Of MBA

    – Poets & Quants

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Books

  • The Innovative University

    By Clayton Christensen and Henry Eyring

    The Innovative University illustrates how higher education can respond to the forces of disruptive innovation, and offers a nuanced and hopeful analysis of where the traditional university and its traditions have come from and how it needs to change for the future.

  • Rethinking the MBA: Business Education at a Crossroads

    By Srikant M. Datar, David A. Garvin, Patrick Cullen

    Rich with examples and thoroughly researched, Rethinking the MBA reveals why and how business schools must define a better pathway for the future.

  • Promises Fulfilled and Unfulfilled in Management Education

    By Howard Thomas, Lynne Thomas and Alexander Wilson

    Through an open-ended interview research process, Promises Fulfilled and Unfulfilled in Management Education explores the perspectives and views of a wide range of experts drawn not only from the European environment but also from the U.S. and other global players in the management education field.

  • Management Education for the World

    By Katrin Muff, Thomas Dyllick, Mark Drewell, John North, Paul Shrivastava, Jonas Haertle

    This book explores the 21st Century agenda of management education identifying three fundamental goals: educating and developing globally responsible leaders, enabling business organizations to serve the common good, and engaging in the transformation of business and the economy. It is a clarion call of service to society for a sector lost between the interests of faculty, business and the schools themselves at the expense of people and planet. It sees business education stepping up to the plate with the ability of holding and creating a space to provide responsible leadership for a sustainable world embodied in the central and unifying element of the 50+20 vision, the collaboratory.

  • Higher Education in America

    By Derek Bok

    Higher Education in America is a comprehensive and authoritative analysis of the current condition, including the many strengths as well as the weaknesses, of our colleges and universities from former Harvard president Derek Bok, one of the nation’s most respected education experts.

  • Rethinking Undergraduate Education: Liberal Learning for the Profession

    By Anne Colby, Thomas Ehrlich, William Sullivan, Jonathan Dolle

    The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching’s national study of undergraduate business education found that most undergraduate programs are too narrow. Rethinking Undergraduate Business Education examines these limitations and describes the efforts to address them by integrating liberal arts with business curriculum.

Articles, Reports & Papers

  • Higher Education for Business

    Written by economists Robert Aaron Gordon and James Edwin Howell at the request of the Ford Foundation in 1959, the report examined issues including the nature of postwar business careers, the role of education in developing business skills, and what the broader goals of university-based business education should be.

  • Globalization of Management Education: Changing International Structures, Adaptive Strategies, and the Impact on Institutions

    In this comprehensive report, the AACSB Task Force on Globalization of Management Education explores broad globalization trends in management education and provides valuable insights into how business schools can and should respond.

  • The 50+20 Agenda

    The 50+20 Agenda describes a vision for the transformation of management education, in which the common tenet of being the best in the world is revised in favor of creating businesses that are designed and led to achieve the best for the world. The vision was developed over the course of 18 months and through a series of consultative workshops, retreats and meetings across 5 continents with contributions from more than 100 thought leaders and academics, with many more participating in online stakeholder surveys. It also showcases a number of “Emerging Benchmarks”; these are examples of institutions setting new and relevant standards indicative of a collaborative rather than competitive approach.

  • Global Management Education Graduate Survey

    The Global Management Education Graduate Survey, GMAC’s annual poll of students in their final year of graduate business school, reveals that the majority of job-seeking graduates in the class of 2014 received at least one offer of employment at the time of the survey.

  • What America Needs to Know About Higher Education Redesign

    For the past three years, Lumina and Gallup have been gauging the American public’s opinion on the most pressing issues facing higher education today, including cost, access, quality, and workforce readiness.

  • PwC’s NextGen: A global generational study

    How should organisations adapt their companies to fit the demands of both Millennial and non-Millennial employees? Are stereotypes of Millennials accurate?  Do Millennials and non-Millenials have anything in common? This study explores these questions and more. Discover what PwC employees and partners across the globe – including people from different generations, career states and cultural backgrounds – shared about their attitudes in the workplace, and how Millennials in particular factor into the big picture.

  • Fit for the Future: Capitalising on Global Trends

    PwC’s 17th Annual Global CEO Survey
    The global economic recovery continues to be fragile, but with immediate pressures easing. CEOs are feeling more optimistic and gradually switching from survival mode to growth mode. As the latest PwC Annual Global CEO Survey shows, the changes they’re making within  their organisations now have less to do with sheltering from economic headwinds and more to do with preparing for the future. View the PwC US CEO Survey here.