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But can you teach it? - Business schools.(The debate about management education)(Industry Overview)
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The Economist (US)
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May 22, 2004
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Time to drop the case?
No form of education is more commercialised than management education. But are business schools teaching the right things?
APPLICATIONS to business schools are down this year--at least in America, where management education was born and where business schools still award about 85% of the world's business degrees. Kenneth Dunn, dean of Carnegie Mellon's Tepper School of Business, says that applications for the full-time MBA programme, one of the country's best, are about 30% lower than this time last year. Allan Conway of the University of Calgary, and programme director of the MBA Roundtable, an industry body, estimates that applications this ...
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