Deans Guthrie and Bruner (from GW Business School
and Darden) speaking to the summit group at The Roosevelt
House in New York City on February
1.
On
February 1, in New York City, we convened the second in a series of
dialogues about the future of management
education.
Business
school deans, business leaders and key influencers gathered to
reflect on the current state of business education - especially its
ability to produce responsible leaders - and to identify ways they
can advance changes that may be needed. See
report.
Rethinking
Finance
Education
In October
2010, a group of business school academics, primarily in finance,
met in Aspen, Colorado, to consider if and how the teaching of
finance should change, particularly in light of the financial
crisis.
Call
for Business Faculty Engaged in Low-Wage Work
Issues
Aspen is
convening a network of business faculty who are engaged with or
interested in low-wage/front-line work issues to form supportive,
collaborative relationships and create an agenda for the better
integration of these topics into business school teaching and
faculty research.If you or someone you know is
interested in joining this network, please contact Miguel Padro.
Explore the Center's
entire Publications
Library, including journal articles written by Aspen Institute
staff, speeches, audio recordings, and a variety of thought
leadership pieces...
Teaching Business and the Arab World
As
political uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt and other countries in the
Arab world unfold, businessmen and educators alike are looking to
better understand the financial, social and political nature of
business in these key regions.
Visit CasePlace.org to see Middle East
related teaching materials:
Click here
for more CasePlace readings on teaching business and the Middle
East.
Economics
and Peace Faculty Network Holds First
Convening
The
Economics and Peace Faculty Network is a consortium of business
faculty and leading scholars studying the linkages between peace,
business and economic development, with the goal of stimulating new
academic research and business school curriculum.
The
Network held its first convening on January 28-29 at American
University's Kogod School of Business in Washington, DC.Numerous teaching and research project ideas came out of the
lively discussion.
The Aspen
Institute's Center for Business Education encourages future business
leaders to innovate at the intersection of corporate profits and
social impacts. Our goal is bold and long-term: to radically
re-orient the MBA degree to embrace the principles of corporate
citizenship and sustainability.
