Journal of Management Development: Volume 31 Issue 4

Business schools in transition? Issues of impact, legitimacy, capabilities and re‐invention

Howard Thomas, Eric Cornuel

The purpose of this editorial is to introduce the set of papers which comprise this issue of the journal, and to provide an interpretation of the current strategic debates about…

Reflections on the globalization of management education

Arnoud De Meyer

Globalization of management education seems to have become the natural way to go for management and business schools. Almost every week one can find in the specialized press…

Developing strategies and leaders to succeed in a new era of sustainability: Findings and insights from the United Nations Global Compact‐Accenture CEO Study

Peter Lacy, Arnaud Haines, Rob Hayward

The purpose of this paper is to identify leading CEOs’ views on sustainability and how they believe it is impacting the business environment, with a particular focus on the…

Using new social media and Web 2.0 technologies in business school teaching and learning

Michael Thomas, Howard Thomas

The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of social and digital media in the business school and particularly to examine how such innovative technological processes can be…

The legitimacy of the business of business schools: what's the future?

David C. Wilson, Howard Thomas

The purpose of this paper is to examine some challenges facing business schools and their continued legitimacy. Particular attention is paid to the problems of accreditation…

A sustainable model for business schools

Howard Thomas, Kai Peters

The purpose of this paper is to provide insight into the financial models used by business schools, with a specific focus on the cost side of the model.

A Red Queen approach to the fading margins of business education

Santiago Iñiguez De Onzoño, Salvador Carmona

The purpose of this paper is to propose a “change” stance towards the current situation of business education. Drawing on a theoretically embedded model, the authors hold a…

Blended learning and learning communities: opportunities and challenges

James Fleck

The purpose of this paper is to address the nature and development of blended learning and the emerging notion of learning communities, with particular reference to management and…

Curriculum reform: getting more macro, and more micro

Richard K. Lyons

The purpose of this paper is to describe in detail the recent curriculum reform at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business and outline the process followed to achieve it and lessons…

The business school of the future: the network‐based business model

Peter Lorange

The purpose of this paper is to highlight how an innovative design might look for a business school of the future.

Visionary leadership in business schools: an institutional framework

Granit Almog‐Bareket

Recent decades have seen a change in the environment of business schools. These changes place great responsibility on deans as the leaders of schools to act. To date, there has…