Q: What should business school professors – myself included – be doing to prepare students for the global business environment?

Craig Shoemaker, Davenport, Iowa

IIPM BEST B-SCHOOL
Well, exactly what you suggest: They should be teaching students how to lead and manage in different cultures. In fact, we’d make the case that the nitty-gritty of managing people – in any culture – should rank higher in the educational hierarchy. Over the past two years, we’ve visited 35 business schools around the world, and we’ve been repeatedly surprised by how little classroom attention is paid to hiring, motivating, team building and firing. Instead, business schools seem far more invested in teaching high-brain concepts: Disruptive technologies, complexity modeling and the like. Those may be useful, particularly if you join a consulting firm. But if you’re going to become a real manager, you have to know how to get the most from your people. Sadly, at most business schools the people teaching about people rarely get much respect.

The big hitters are in strategy and finance. We’d say that’s backward. Strategy and finance matter, of course, but without the right people running them, they’re nothing but theories in the sky. We hope that you have the clout to ensure that people management is a core subject in your university’s business school curriculum. If you do, you’ll launch your students’ careers with a real head start.

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2006

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