In a bid to persuade executives to become business school lecturers, the AACSB has introduced a five-day seminar to enable these managers to move into academia.
The AACSB describes on its website this initiative and Della Bradshaw of the Finanical Times in an article points out that in the UK this type of Bridge program has existed for many years through the work of the Foundation for Management Education (FME).
The director of the FME discussed "The changing face of executive education" on 25th April 2005.
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It seems to me that a better solution is to recruit PhDs from core disciplines such as psychology, economics, and sociology. Many of our top scholars (e.g., in organization theory, strategic management) already come from these disciplines - and given the undersupply of business PhDs and oversupply of other social science PhDs - seems like a natural solution.
Stocking b-schools with more executives could be a risky strategy (even if it only is a short-term solution) - as it may take away from an emphasis on scholarship and rigor. While many executives of course do a fantastic job teaching (given their rich experiences), executive teaching can be heavy on war stories and anecdotes, rather than theory and empirics. I believe we need more of the latter, not the former.
Posted by: teppof | Tuesday, 27 June 2006 at 11:43 AM