Rethinking the MBA

Part Two

InstitutionalResponses

Both part I and part II examine the challenges and opportunities confronting business schools today. They do so, however, from different vantage points, using different levels of analysis. Whereas part I provides a detailed, empirically grounded portrait of the larger environment for MBA education, part II shifts the focus from an industrywide perspective to in-depth portraits of particular institutions. Chapters 7 through 12 present rich, field-based case studies of business schools and executive programs that have responded in distinctive ways to the unmet needs identified in chapter 4. These chapters give readers the opportunity to review specific changes and initiatives in the context of institutions as a ...