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An evidence-based approach to improving graduate management education.

With contributions by administrators and professors from top graduate management programs worldwide, this book provides business school decision makers with an evidence-based approach to improving the practice of graduate management education. The book is designed to help navigate the pressures of today's market and create revolutionary platforms that leverage a school's unique competitive advantage in a design distinctly tailored for today's business realities.

• Offers a unique handbook for improving graduate management education.
• Contains contributions from an international group of deans and professors that lead MBA programs.
• Sponsored by GMAC, owner of the Graduate Management Admission Test^™ (GMAT^™) used by more than 5,800 graduate management programs worldwide.

"... essential reading for those involved in the leadership of business schools."

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China Europe International Business School

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J. Ben Arbaugh
Professor, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh

Co-Author: Overlooked and Unappreciated: What Research Tells Us About How Teaching Must Change (Chapter 6)

J. B. (Ben) Arbaugh is Professor of Management in the College of Business (COB) at the University of Wisconsin (UW) Oshkosh. His published research has appeared in leading management and educational research journals such as Academy of Management Learning & Education, Computers & Education, Management Learning, The Internet and Higher Education, and the Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks. From 2009 to 2011, he was editor of Academy of Management Learning & Education and chaired the Management Education and Development Division of the Academy of Management in 2006–2007. He is a six-time Academy of Management Division Best Paper Award winner and winner of Best Article Awards with both the Journal of Management Education and the Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education. He also serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Management Education, Academy of Management Learning & Education, Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education, The Internet and Higher Education, and Organization Management Journal.

Jean Bartunek                                                   top of page
Robert A. and Evelyn J. Ferris Chair and Professor, Boston College

Co-Author: Curriculum Matters: Toward a More Holistic Graduate Management Education (Chapter 5)

Jean M. Bartunek is the Robert A. and Evelyn J. Ferris Chair and Professor of Management and Organization at the Carroll School of Management at Boston College, where she has taught since 1977. Her bachelor’s degree in psychology and sociology is from Maryville University (St. Louis), where she has served on the board of trustees since 2003. Her PhD in social and organizational psychology is from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is a past president and fellow of the Academy of Management and in 2009 won the Academy’s Career Distinguished Service Award. From 2008 to 2010, she was a visiting international fellow of the Advanced Institute for Management Research in the United Kingdom. 

Kenneth G. Brown                                             top of page

Professor and Henry B. Tippie Research Fellow, University of Iowa

Co-Author: Overlooked and Unappreciated: What Research Tells Us About How Teaching Must Change (Chapter 6)

Kenneth G. Brown, PhD, SPHR, is currently Professor and Henry B. Tippie Research Fellow in the Henry B. Tippie College of Business at the University of Iowa. He conducts research on learning and motivation in workplace training and development, with an emphasis on technology-mediated learning environments. He also studies the science–practice gap as it relates to management policy and practice. His published work has appeared in journals such as Academy of Management Executive, Academy of Management Learning & Education, Human Resource Management, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Personnel Psychology, and in a number of edited books. He is coauthor (with Greg Stewart) of the human resources textbook, Human Resource Management: Linking Strategy to Practice.

Erich Dierdorff                                                   top of page
Associate Professor, DePaul University

Co-Author: Building the Case for Graduate Management Education: Ensuring and Enhancing Future Value (Chapter 1)
Co-Author: Epilogue

Erich C. Dierdorff is an Associate Professor of Management in the Driehaus College of Business at DePaul University in Chicago. His published research has appeared in leading management journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Management, Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, and The Leadership Quarterly, among others. Dr. Dierdorff serves on the editorial boards of Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, Academy of Management Learning & Education, Human Performance, and Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies. He has also contributed to numerous industry and press outlets (e.g., Bloomberg Businessweek, Financial Times, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and The Washington Post).

Daniel Feldman                                                 top of page
Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, University of Georgia

Author: Student Engagement: Selection, Management, and Outcomes (Chapter 7)

Daniel Feldman is Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Synovus Chair of Servant Leadership at the University of Georgia’s Terry College of Business. He has served on the faculties of Yale College, the University of Minnesota Industrial Relations Center, Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management, University of Florida, as the James Bradley Distinguished Foundation Fellow at the University of South Carolina’s Moore School of Business, and as a Visiting Sloan Scholar at MIT. He received his MA in administrative sciences and his PhD in organizational behavior at Yale University Graduate School.

Michael Hay                                                      top of page
Professor, London Business School

Author: Framing and Making Strategic Choices (Chapter 2)

Michael Hay is Professor of Management Practice in Strategic and International Management and Entrepreneurship at London Business School. He was deputy dean and secretary of the school for five years until December 2006 and acting dean of CIDA City Campus in Johannesburg, South Africa in 2007. CIDA is an innovative institution that provides virtually free undergraduate business education to historically disadvantaged individuals.

Brooks Holtom                                                  top of page
Associate Professor, Georgetown University

Co-Author: The Change Imperative (Introduction)
Co-Author: Epilogue

Brooks Holtom is Associate Professor of Management at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. He taught previously at the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University as well as at the College of Business Administration at Marquette University. He has been a visiting professor at the Munich School of Management, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität (Germany), Institut d’Economie Scientifique Et de Gestion, l’Université Catholique de Lille (France), and Colegio de Administración para el Desarrollo, Universidad San Francisco de Quito (Ecuador).

George A. Hrivnak                                             top of page
Assistant Professor, Bond University

Co-Author: Overlooked and Unappreciated: What Research Tells Us About How Teaching Must Change (Chapter 6)

George Hrivnak is an Assistant Professor of Management at Bond University in Queensland, Australia. His research focuses on management education and development, including leadership development, experiential learning, instructional design and assessment, and transfer of learning. He and his colleagues have published their work in the Journal of International Management, Journal of Management Education, International Journal of Organizational Analysis, and Small Group Research, and have published several book chapters and conference papers.

Dipak Jain                                                         top of page
Former Dean, INSEAD

Co-Author: Building the Case for Graduate Management Education: Ensuring and Enhancing Future Value (Chapter 1)

Dipak Jain is the former Dean of the international business school INSEAD, a position he held from March 2011 to March of 2013. Dr. Jain previously served as dean of Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management from 2001 to 2009. He joined the Kellogg School of Management faculty in 1986 as an associate professor and became an associate dean in 1996. In 1994, he was named the school’s Sandy and Morton Goldman Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies and professor of marketing. He currently continues his role at INSEAD as professor of marketing.

Subhash Jain                                                     top of page
Professor and Director for Center for International Business Education and Research, University of Connecticut

Co-Author: Building the Case for Graduate Management Education: Ensuring and Enhancing Future Value (Chapter 1)

Subhash C. Jain is Professor of International Marketing, Director of the Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER), and Director of the GE Global Learning Center (GEGLC) at the University of Connecticut’s School of Business. His teaching, consulting, and research activities include marketing strategy and multinational marketing. Dr. Subhash Jain is the author of more than 100 publications, including 12 books: Marketing Planning and Strategy, International Marketing, Export Strategy, Market Evolution in Developing Countries, Handbook of Research in International Marketing, Toward a Global Business Confederation, Multinational Corporations and Poverty Reduction, Emerging Economies and the Transformation of International Business, Global Business Negotiations, and others.

Jikyeong Kang                                                   top of page
Professor and Director of Postgraduate Centre, Manchester Business School

Co-Author: Managing Aspirations, Resources, and Cost Structures in Differentiating Constraints (Chapter 3)

Jikyeong Kang is currently Professor of Marketing and Director of the DBA Program at Manchester Business School (MBS), United Kingdom. A native of Korea, she spent 18 years in the United States, nine of which on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin–Madison. During the early years of her career at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, she was elected as a member of the prestigious Teaching Academy. She has held visiting appointments at numerous business schools, including CEIBS, ESSEC, RSM, HEC, and Sogang University.

Amy L. Kenworthy                                             top of page
Professor and Founding Director of LEAP Centre, Bond University

Co-Author: Overlooked and Unappreciated: What Research Tells Us About How Teaching Must Change (Chapter 6)

Amy L. Kenworthy is the Founding Director of the Centre for Applied Research in Learning, Engagement, Andragogy, and Pedagogy (LEAP) and Professor of Management at the School of Business at Bond University in Queensland, Australia. Dr. Kenworthy’s primary research and scholarship interests focus on the interrelated areas of service learning, community engagement, and experiential education practices. She has served as guest editor for special issues on service learning in the Academy of Management Learning & Education, the Journal of Management Education, the International Journal of Case Method Research & Application, and the International Journal of Organizational Analysis and has published numerous articles in leading academic journals. Her recent publications include two edited books—Innovations in Teaching and Learning and Community Engagement in Contemporary Legal Education (coedited with Patrick Keyzer and Gail Wilson).

Rakesh Khurana                                                 top of page
Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development, Harvard Business School

Co-Author: Intellectual Signatures: Impact on Relevance and Doctoral Programs (Chapter 4)

Rakesh Khurana is the Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development at the Harvard Business School. He is also the master of Cabot House at Harvard College. He teaches a doctoral seminar on management and markets and MBA courses in corporate governance in and leadership. Professor Khurana received his BS from Cornell University and his AM (sociology) and PhD in organization behavior from Harvard University. Prior to attending graduate school, he worked in sales and marketing as a founding member of Cambridge Technology Partners.

Frederick P. Morgeson                                       top of page
Professor, Michigan State University

Co-Author: Reclaiming Quality in Graduate Education (Chapter 8)

Frederick P. Morgeson is Professor of Management and Valade Research Scholar at the Eli Broad College of Business at Michigan State University. He received his PhD in industrial and organizational psychology from Purdue University. Dr. Morgeson teaches and does research in human resource management and organizational behavior. His research has focused on four distinct areas. The first involves his continuing interest in leadership, particularly with respect to the role of leadership in self-managing teams and the nature of the relationship between leaders and followers. His second area of research examines fundamental questions about the nature of work, including how work is structured and how people perceive their work, which he has explored in a series of studies in the job analysis, work design, and work teams areas. Dr. Morgeson has also studied the effectiveness and consequences of different selection techniques and has explored issues of theory development and sought to produce integrative research in the substantive research areas of his interest.

Denis J. Nayden                                                 top of page
Managing Partner, Oak Hill Capital Partners

Co-Author: Building the Case for Graduate Management Education: Ensuring and Enhancing Future Value (Chapter 1)

Denis J. Nayden is a Managing Partner of Oak Hill Capital, a private equity firm in which Robert M. Bass is the lead investor. At Oak Hill Capital, Mr. Nayden heads the industry groups focused on investments in basic industries and co-heads the business & financial services team. Currently, he represents Oak Hill Capital on a number of boards in which Oak Hill Capital directly invests. He chairs the boards of directors of Avolon Aerospace Limited and Firth Rixson Limited and he is on the board of Accretive Healthcare and Jacobson Companies. Formerly, he was chaired the boards of directors of Primus International, RSC Equipment Rental, and Duane Reade, Inc., and a member of the board of Genpact Limited, all prior Oak Hill Capital investments.

Lyman W. Porter                                                top of page
Professor Emeritus, University of California, Irvine

Co-Author: The Change Imperative (Introduction)

Lyman W. Porter is Professor Emeritus of Management in the Paul Merage School of Business at the University of California, Irvine (UCI), and was formerly dean of that school. Prior to joining UCI in 1967, he served on the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley, and was a visiting professor at Yale University. Currently, he serves as a member of the board of trustees of the American University of Armenia. He has also been a visiting professor at Hong Kong University and has served as an external examiner for the National University of Singapore.

Robert S. Rubin                                                  top of page
Associate Professor, DePaul University

Co-Author: Reclaiming Quality in Graduate Education (Chapter 8)

Robert S. Rubin is Associate Professor of Management in the Driehaus College of Business at DePaul University. He has published his work in leading academic journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Personnel Psychology, The Leadership Quarterly, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Business Ethics Quarterly, Journal of Business Ethics, Human Resources Management, Journal of Management Education, and Academy of Management Learning & Education. Professor Rubin’s research also has been profiled in national publications, including Bloomberg Businessweek, Financial Times, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. Currently, Dr. Rubin is an editorial board member of the Academy of Management Learning & Education, and Leadership and Organizational Studies. Dr. Rubin coauthored a management skills textbook, Managing Organizational Behavior: What Great Managers Know and Do.

Sara L. Rynes-Weller                                          top of page
Professor, University of Iowa

Co-Author: Curriculum Matters: Toward a More Holistic Graduate Management Education (Chapter 5)

Sara L. Rynes is the John F. Murray Professor of Management and Organization in the Tippie College of Business at the University of Iowa. Her research has appeared in leading management journals such as the Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, Harvard Business Review, and Academy of Management Learning & Education. She was editor-in-chief of the Academy of Management Journal from 2005 to 2007 and served on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Review, Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, Human Resource Management, and the Academy of Management Learning & Education.

John-Christopher (JC) Spender                          top of page
Visiting Professor of the Department of People Management and Organisation, ESADE

Co-Author: Intellectual Signatures: Impact on Relevance and Doctoral Programs (Chapter 4)

John-Christopher Spender is currently a Visiting Professor at Lund University, Sweden; ESADE, Spain; and at Cranfield University School of Management, the Open University Business School, and Leeds University Business School, all in the United Kingdom. He is also a faculty member and Chairman of The Board for the International School of Management in Paris, France. Trained initially as a nuclear engineer, Dr. Spender worked for Rolls-Royce & Associates at the plant for British nuclear submarines from 1960 to1965. He later joined IBM (UK), working from 1965 to 1970 as a large account team manager, and later worked in London as an investment banker until 1988.

Andrew Stark                                                      top of page
Professor, Manchester Business School

Co-Author: Managing Aspirations, Resources, and Cost Structures in Differentiating Constraints (Chapter 3)

Andrew W. Stark is the Coutts Professor of Accounting and Finance at the Manchester Business School. He has held this position since 1996, having previously held faculty positions at the Yale School of Management, the University of Essex, the University of Ulster at Jordanstown, the University of Maryland at College Park, and the University of Manchester. While at the Manchester Business School, he served for six years as the director of the full-time MBA program and is currently head of the division of accounting and finance.