Posts by Howard Thomas
Perspectives on the impact, mission and purpose of the business school
The business school has been an important success story in the evolution of the modern university. Yet it is increasingly valued in that context “much more for its managerial expertise, cash generation ability and financial strength than its intellectual vigour and scholarship. Indeed … its legitimacy as a serious academic discipline is critically questioned by scholars in science, arts and the humanities”
Read MoreAplicar liberalmente
Hacia un modelo liberal de educación gerencial Howard Thomas defiende la integración de las artes liberales en la educación gerencial, de modo que el énfasis de los planes de estudio existentes en la perspicacia tecnológica y analítica se equilibre con las aptitudes de pensamiento crítico e inteligencia ética necesarias para el juicio administrativo
Read MoreApply liberally: Towards a model of liberal management education
Howard Thomas argues the case for integrating the liberal arts into management education so that the existing curricula emphasis on technological and analytical acumen is balanced with skills of critical thinking and ethical intelligence necessary for managerial judgment.
Read MoreWhat should business schools be for?
Howard Thomas and Kenneth Starkey report on a new initiative that looks to business schools to re-orient themselves to a challenging new future.
Read MoreEl futuro de las escuelas de negocios: ¿cerrarlas o ampliar nuestros horizontes?
Ken Starkey y Howard Thomas informan sobre un taller innovador que debatió las crecientes críticas de las escuelas de negocios y a dónde podrían ir
Read MoreAfrica: The management education challenge
How will the competitive environment in African management education evolve over the next ten years?
Read MoreWhat is the European management school model?
Over the last ten to fifteen years, the identity, importance and legitimacy of European management schools have been strongly established in the context of the ‘business of business schools’, writes Howard Thomas.
Read MoreDoes Africa need an “African” management education model?
Howard Thomas, Michelle Lee, Lynne Thomas and Alexander Wilson ask if Africa can (and should) develop its own style of management education.
Read MoreDynamic capabilities and the business school of the future
Business schools need to focus more clearly on their dynamic capabilities in order to re-invigorate and re-develop themselves and their students.
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