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A Totally New Direction for Management Education: A Modest Proposal

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  • William C. Glauque

    (Institute of Business Management, Brigham Young University, 395 JKB, Provo, Utah 84602)

  • R. E. D. Woolsey

    (Mineral Economics Department, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado 80401)

Abstract

“The major problem with business school graduates,” a businessman told us recently, “is that I have to train them for two years after graduation to do me any good. The first year they have to unlearn what they learned in school, and the second they start learning the business.”This is hardly a ringing endorsement of management education, but is repeated too often to be ignored. Despite the undeniable accomplishments of graduate education in management, many managers ruefully agree with Robert Townsend's advice not to hire Harvard MBA's. The article proposes a completely new way of educating managers in business schools so that they perform better in real practice.

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  • William C. Glauque & R. E. D. Woolsey, 1981. "A Totally New Direction for Management Education: A Modest Proposal," Interfaces, INFORMS, vol. 11(4), pages 30-34, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:orinte:v:11:y:1981:i:4:p:30-34
    DOI: 10.1287/inte.11.4.30
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    1. Michael F. Gorman, 2018. "A Survey of Research in Field-Based Education: A Summary of Process, Best Practices, and Lessons Learned," INFORMS Transactions on Education, INFORMS, vol. 18(3), pages 145-161, May.

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