The Liberal Arts and Management Education

Howard Thomas is Professor Emeritus of Strategic Management and Management Education at Singapore Management University, and the Ahmass Fakahany Distinguished Visiting Professor of Global Leadership at the Questrom School of Business, Boston University. He is a highly cited scholar, with fellowship awards from the US Academy of Management, the British Academy of Management, the Strategic Management Society, the Academy of Social Sciences, and the Institute of Directors. He was also awarded the Richard Whipp Lifetime Achievement Award of the British Academy of Management in 2013, and the Strategic Leadership Award from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Business International (AACSB) in 2014. Stefano Harney is Honorary Professor in the Institute of Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice at the University of British Columbia. He is also a Visiting Critic at Yale University Art School, and a Professor at the European Graduate School. He is co-author of The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study (with Fred Moten, 2013). He runs the reading camp and art project Ground Provisions with Tonika Sealy Thompson. He co-founded School for Study a nomadic collective of university teachers experimenting with co-teaching.

• Preface; Acknowledgements; Part I. Liberal Management Education Today: 1. Towards a liberal management education: arguing the case; 2. Implementing liberal management education; 3. Singapore Management University, a case study; 4. The School of Business and Management, Queen Mary University of London, a case study; Part II. The Liberal Heritage of Management Education: 5. Forgotten kinships; 6. Running in the family; 7. The demotics of management; Part III. The Future of Liberal Management Education: 8. From ethics to liberal arts in today's university; 9. Towards an African management education; 10. Conclusion; Postscript; Bibliography.

'Anemic global growth, severe income disparity and ethical breaches have cast concern that management education models are flawed. In this provocative book, Thomas and Harney convincingly argue that the main issue is the lack of integration of the liberal arts into management curricula. They call for a rethinking, not only of business education but of how universities structure their curricula in all areas. This book should be required reading for all academics; it will undoubtedly change the way faculty think about educating the next generation of leaders.' Andrew J. Policano, Professor Emeritus, The University of California, Irvine