The Business School in the Twenty-First Century

Howard Thomas is Dean and LKCSB Chair in Strategic Management at the Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University. He was Dean of Warwick Business School (2000–2010) and, prior to this, he was Dean of the College of Commerce and Business Administration at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (1991–2000). Peter Lorange is President of the Lorange Institute of Business, Zurich and is one of the world's foremost business school academics. He is Professor of Strategy at IMD, Switzerland and was the President of IMD (1993–2008). Prior to this, he was President of the Norwegian School of Management in Oslo. Jagdish Sheth is the Charles H. Kellstadt Chair of Marketing in the Goizueta Business School at Emory University, Atlanta, where he won the school's Global Innovation Award in June 2008. Professor Sheth is an internationally recognised business consultant and has been an educator for more than 40 years.

• Preface: tipping or tripping? The business school and its dilemmas; 1. The business school: history, evolution and the search for legitimacy; 2. Business school identity and legitimacy: its relationship to the modern university and society; 3. Rethinking management education and its models: a critical examination of management and management education; 4. A framework for re-evaluating paradigms of management education; 5. Evaluating new and innovative models of management education; 6. Is the business school a professional firm? Lessons learned; 7. Enhancing dynamic capabilities in the business school: improving leadership capabilities in curricula and management; 8. Afterword: business school futures; Index.

'Lorange, Sheth and Thomas provide a comprehensive, data-filled overview of the business school landscape including its history and current conditions. With an appropriately broad focus on schools throughout the world, and by considering what skills business schools should impart to their students and how they might accomplish this, this book is one of the very best overviews of the business school ecosystem.' Jeffrey Pfeffer, Thomas D. Dee, II Professor of Organizational Behavior, Stanford University