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Making our classrooms, and our lives, more personal
Making our classrooms, and our lives, more personal. My latest question for reflection: Are we not realizing these days that the future is about making all things more personal, in our classrooms, in our work, and in our lives in general? When I was preparing to speak to the MBA program directors last week (see the two previous posts) about “creating a positive group dynamic” in the classroom, I thought quite a bit about the interaction of e-learning and classic on-site learning. One direction education appears to be headed is toward more “blended” models, where students will learn basic concepts online at their own pace. Then, the classroom becomes more … Continue reading
The evolving MBA will be more and more “blended”
We closed last time with the increasingly pertinent question in today’s world. As technological innovation spreads throughout the world of education, in an era where so much academic content will be available online at no or little cost, how great will the *disruption be to the traditional university model*, and to the MBA in particular? Monday and Tuesday of this week, I had the opportunity to attend, as an invited speaker, a meeting of some 80 MBA program directors from around the world, sponsored by the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD.org). I found it fascinating to meet this diverse and interesting group, and to have the unique opportunity of … Continue reading
Some thoughts on the future of the MBA
When the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD.org) invited me to speak at their 2013 MBA conference in Lausanne on March 18, I was somewhat surprised, and also flattered. EFMD is an interesting organization whose fundamental objective is to raise the standard of management education worldwide. According to the general information on their website, they seek to provide an international platform to bring together leaders in the management education in order to reflect on major issues affecting their profession. At the heart of the group are over 550 business school members that include some of the world’s premier institutions of management education. In addition, they are the group responsible for … Continue reading
An interesting journey to America (part 2)
A noteworthy meeting :The following Monday, November 5, I had a long breakfast meeting and conversation with Jamil Mahuad, former president of Ecuador, to whom I had been introduced by a common friend. In the early days of his presidency, in 1998, Mahuad negotiated a historic agreement with Peru, an accord that ended a series long-standing border disputes between the two countries. In the words of then US president Bill Clinton, the definitive peace treaty “ended the longest source of armed conflict in this hemisphere.” Since his resignation as president in 2000, Mahuad has been a Fellow at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. Mahuad is a humble … Continue reading
