Global Business Education: An Innovative Dialogue

How can business education enhance value for students, employers, and the rest of society? How will technology continue to challenge the model of business education? And how can academia and industry collaborate to make sure that students develop important leadership and management competencies? These are just some of the critical questions facing business school leaders, educators, and industry experts today. This book, the first in a two-book series to articulate the rationale and method for developing a series of global conversations through a jam process to address the most pressing issues in business education today, looks specifically at the issue of regional requirements and necessary contextual variation in approaches.

With insights from some of the leading business school deans and educators, Global Business Education: An Innovative Dialogue focuses on the discussion and paths taken that led to the creation of the innovative concept of a distributed, regional model of jams. This will include the background on the first jam; the rationale and design of the regional jams; and present the outcomes of the ten global dialogues.

This book is important for all business school leaders and educators who wish to gain insight into innovative methods for determining new directions in business education.

Paul R. Carlile is Professor of Management and the Senior Associate Dean for Innovation at the Boston University Questrom School of Business. He was previously at the MIT Sloan School of Management and also served as Department Chair of Information Systems at the Boston University Questrom School of Business.

Steven H. Davidson is Associate Dean, Academic Programs, at Boston University Questrom School of Business and served as the lead Project Manager for the Business Education Jam. In his role as Associate Dean, Steven provides leadership for cross-program efforts including assessment, program research, accreditation, and the development, support, and implementation of curricular initiatives, program enhancements, and academic policy.

Howard Thomas has had Deanships and Senior Administrative positions at London Business School, AGSM, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Warwick Business School, and Singapore Management University. He has won fellowship awards from the US Academy of Management, the British Academy of Management, the Strategic Management Society, the Academy of Social Sciences, the Learned Society of Wales, the European Academy of Management, and the Institute of Directors. He was also awarded EFMD’s Outstanding Achievement Award in 2008, the Richard Whipp Lifetime Achievement Award of the British Academy of Management in 2013, and the Strategic Leadership Award from AACSB in 2014.