Peter Walker writing on-line at www.guardian.co.uk discusses whether the old style leadership teachings at business schools may have contributed to the financial fiasco today. Do Professors need to do some serious reflecting about what they are indoctrinating students with?
" Too
many MBA programmes, the simplified version goes, draw in young, greedy
types with little business experience and indoctrinate them with
half-baked management and finance theories, along with an unshakeable
belief in their own talents, before sending them out to earn
ill-deserved fortunes in investment banking and consulting."
Clearly a controversial argument but many are questioning the nature of the courses on offer.
Professors are pondering whether the theories they taught played a role in the troubles we find ourselves in today.
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