Are business schools - businesses of some kind? What are the points of similarity and differences?
A difference I see beetween business teaching and business itself is that the first one has no limited quantity of winners, but the second one yes. Let´s have an example. If I want to buy a car, I buy either a Ford, or a Toyota or a Hyundai, but not the three of them. However, in a classroom, there is not a limited quantity of "excellent" or "good" grades, all the group can achieve its goal.
So, I think that minor changes should be implemented in some disciplines in order to make life in a classroom more similar to what pupils will see when they´ll do business.
Hope it helps
Regards
Gustavo Concari
Dear Sir,
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ericjackson/2011/08/10/the-ten-biggest-lies-of-b-school/#7001b82654a9
I thi k not only b-schools, but tbe whole higher education system increasingly resembles business. I am not sure if tbis js good or bad...Deacreasing public financing forces HEIs to be market oriented to a larver extent than ever before.
What some 'universities for business and society' are aspiring to do instead.
http://globalfocusmagazine.com/growing-the-impact-of-management-education-and-scholarship/
A difference I see beetween business teaching and business itself is that the first one has no limited quantity of winners, but the second one yes. Let´s have an example. If I want to buy a car, I buy either a Ford, or a Toyota or a Hyundai, but not the three of them. However, in a classroom, there is not a limited quantity of "excellent" or "good" grades, all the group can achieve its goal.
So, I think that minor changes should be implemented in some disciplines in order to make life in a classroom more similar to what pupils will see when they´ll do business.
Hope it helps
Regards
Gustavo Concari
The product they sell is education. One product they produce is the student. They consumer has a choice in which product (school) to purchase for the most part. Another product they produce is research and knowledge. The consumer Of THAT produce is a bit more nuanced.
Of course, entrance requirements and grant request keep B-schools from being a full capitalistic endeavor.
There is greater transparency and more ethical behaviour in a business than in a business school. There is often more efficient communication and consensual decision making; teachers can be dinosaurs! There are many similarities between both worlds but culturally (corporate culture) and strategically they are miles apart, particularly in terms of stakeholders.
A business school teaches the nuts and bolts of business, IE: how to execute various tasks associated with business from planning to day to day operations - and the theoretical ramifications, outcomes of such. However an actual business operates in the real world. This may be slightly off topic but you can teach someone about business however good business sense can be seen as a talent just like a good athlete or musician. Sure, these can be taught/learned through practise, but some of these qualities are innate, just as there are people who are born with athletic and musical gifts
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