Strategic leadership in the business school : keeping one step ahead / Fernando Fragueiro and Howard Thomas.
"Business schools have come under fire in recent years with criticisms centring on their academic rigour and the relevance of business education to the 'real' world of management. Alongside this ongoing debate, increasing international competition and media rankings have led to a fier...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
[2011]
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| Online Access: | Cambridge Books on Core |
| Summary: | "Business schools have come under fire in recent years with criticisms centring on their academic rigour and the relevance of business education to the 'real' world of management. Alongside this ongoing debate, increasing international competition and media rankings have led to a fierce struggle between business schools for positioning and differentiation. These are among the challenges that are faced by the Dean of the modern-day business school. In this book, Fernando Fragueiro and Howard Thomas show how Deans of business schools can meet such challenges in terms of strategic direction setting and the execution of their leadership role. Drawing on their invaluable experience as Deans of highly successful business schools, they present a series of case studies to show how leaders of five leading business schools (IMD, LBS, INSEAD, IAE and Warwick) have built effective strategies in the context of internal and external political pressures"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 269 pages) : illustrations |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 051192108X 9780511921087 1139075241 9781139075244 1139077503 9781139077507 1139079794 9781139079792 113908206X 9781139082068 1283112299 9781283112291 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/CBO9780511921087 |