RETHINKING THE

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Need for change

MBA programs to innovate and

leadership skills

Gaining a global perspective integration skills

Developing Honing

Recognizing Acting

organizational realities and implementing effectively creatively and innovatively critically and communicating clearly

Thinking

Understanding Understanding

the role, responsibilities and purpose of business markets the limits of methods and
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 Content

Pedagogy

Architecture

Purpose

trend
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Required responses
Increasing Increasing

the percentage of international students and faculty at the school the global content of functional courses

Creating

integrative global management international exchange programs

courses
Developing Organizing Offering

treks and immersions that take students abroad for several weeks or months global field studies and projects global research centers 5/9/12

Establishing

Teaching integration
Giving

students responsibility for integrating across a portfolio of functional courses integrative thinking in required functional courses capstone courses with a general management point of view an integrated curriculum the curriculum around integrative thinking skills

Embedding Creating

Developing Organizing

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Kolbs experiential learning model

Concrete

experience observation

Reflective

Abstract

conceptualization

Active

experimentation

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Institutional responses
From From From From From From

organize, incremental curriculum changes to planned, large-scale redesign a focus on several unrelated themes to a broad unifying purpose a traditional sequence of courses to a more radical repositioning of topics minor variations on existing courses to novel and innovative course content rigid requirements to greater flexibility and customization loose integration to a tight coupling of 5/9/12 courses

ACS Model
Assessment

Challenge

Support

knowing-doing-being

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manual of style thesauri online

plain English handbook: how to create clear SEC Disclosure documents Nickerson on reasoning by Raymond

Reflections The

art of deception by Nicholas Capaldi

Reinventing Blink:

the Bazaar: a natural history of markets by John Mcmillan the power of thinking without thinking by Malcolm Gladwell 5/9/12