Disrupt or Be Disrupted: A Blueprint for Change in Management Education

Foreword

The MBA program, the flagship of business schools, was the greatest educational innovation of the twentieth century. I base this claim on at least three characteristics of the program: the case method, the transformational experience, and internationalization. Although business schools did not pioneer the case method—law schools did so—they made the case method discussion into a dynamic experience that brought a slice of real life into the classroom. In addition, the MBA was not just an educational experience but a transformational one. Both in the classroom and through the increasingly important extracurricular activities, students found their capabilities stretched not just technically but in terms of personal development. Graduates ...