Uneak White's Personal Brand Exploration Presentation
Rethinkingthe mba
1. RETHINKING THE MBA
Srikant m. Dayar, David A. Gravin, Patrick G. Cullen
2. Need for MBA programs to innovate and change
Gaining a global perspective
Developing leadership skills
Honing integration skills
Recognizing organizational realities and
implementing effectively
Acting creatively and innovatively
Thinking critically and communicating clearly
Understanding the role, responsibilities and purpose
of business
Understanding the limits of methods and markets
4. Required responses
Increasing the percentage of international students
and faculty at the school
Increasing the global content of functional courses
Creating integrative global management courses
Developing international exchange programs
Organizing treks and immersions that take students
abroad for several weeks or months
Offering global field studies and projects
Establishing global research centers
Building an overseas campus
5. Teaching integration
Giving students responsibility for integrating across a
portfolio of functional courses
Embedding integrative thinking in required functional
courses
Creating capstone courses with a general
management point of view
Developing an integrated curriculum
Organizing the curriculum around integrative thinking
skills
6. Kolb’s experiential learning model
Concrete experience
Reflective observation
Abstract conceptualization
Active experimentation
7. Institutional responses
From organize, incremental curriculum changes to
planned, large-scale redesign
From a focus on several unrelated themes to a broad
unifying purpose
From a traditional sequence of courses to a more radical
repositioning of topics
From minor variations on existing courses to novel and
innovative course content
From rigid requirements to greater flexibility and
customization
From loose integration to a tight coupling of courses
From pedagogies based on large classroom lectures and
case discussions to field work, experiential learning,
small-group activities, and even one-on-one instruction
8. ACS Model
Assessment
Challenge
Support
knowing-doing-being
9. Chicago manual of style
Roger’s thesauri online
A plain English handbook: how to create clear SEC
Disclosure documents
Reflections on reasoning by Raymond Nickerson
The art of deception by Nicholas Capaldi
Reinventing the Bazaar: a natural history of markets
by John Mcmillan
Blink: the power of thinking without thinking by
Malcolm Gladwell
The end of poverty: economic possibilities for our
times by Jeffrey Sachs
