Here's a sampling of some business school-related news headlines over the past couple months:
"Chicago Booth extends dean hunt"
"Boston and George Washington Universities announce replacements for long-standing bosses"
"Harvard appoints Nohria as next dean"
"UNF appoints Samant business school dean"
What's going on with US business schools? There is something to be said for lower-tiered schools moving deans around casually (because in that case there is usually some room for improvement, and more prestige.) But Harvard, Booth? GW?? Some of these top American schools are literally just pulling people from other schools (Doug Guthrie, the new guy at GW, was taken right from NYU Stern.)
For the new deans in these places, it may just be a case of the grass being greener on the other side.
However, it may also be symptomatic of fundamental issues with the institutions themselves. Doug Guthrie, along with Nitin Nohria, the new dean at Harvard, specialize in what is being bizarrely termed "business ethics," the new buzzword in MBA studies
Seemingly, the top business schools know that something is happening in the economy, in business education - maybe even at a societal level - and they're trying to scratch this existential itch by playing a game of musical chairs with deans.
All I have to say is, "good luck with that!"
"Chicago Booth extends dean hunt"
"Boston and George Washington Universities announce replacements for long-standing bosses"
"Harvard appoints Nohria as next dean"
"UNF appoints Samant business school dean"
What's going on with US business schools? There is something to be said for lower-tiered schools moving deans around casually (because in that case there is usually some room for improvement, and more prestige.) But Harvard, Booth? GW?? Some of these top American schools are literally just pulling people from other schools (Doug Guthrie, the new guy at GW, was taken right from NYU Stern.)
For the new deans in these places, it may just be a case of the grass being greener on the other side.
However, it may also be symptomatic of fundamental issues with the institutions themselves. Doug Guthrie, along with Nitin Nohria, the new dean at Harvard, specialize in what is being bizarrely termed "business ethics," the new buzzword in MBA studies
Seemingly, the top business schools know that something is happening in the economy, in business education - maybe even at a societal level - and they're trying to scratch this existential itch by playing a game of musical chairs with deans.
All I have to say is, "good luck with that!"
