Managers not MBA's

Introduction

Part I: Not MBAs

Chapter 1: The Wrong People

Management as a Practice

"Experience" in MBA Admissions

Wrong Time?

The Applications Charade

The Will to Manage versus the Zest for Business

Chapter 2: The Wrong Ways

A Brief History of Business Education

Questioning the Content

The Domination of the Business Functions

And Whatever Happened to Management?

Management by Analysis

Where Are the Soft Skills?

Questioning the Methods

Meanwhile, Back at Harvard's Cases

The Case for Cases

Learning from Bok

Convergence in Business Education

Chapter 3: Wrong Consequences I: Corruption of the Educational Process

Some Student Reactions to MBA Studies

Confidence - Competence = Arrogance

The Mindless Marketing of Critical Thinking

The Schools' Own Top Line

Chapter 4: Wrong Consequences II: Corruption of Managerial Practice

First: The Leap to the "Real" World

Next: The End Run around Managing

Result: The Bottom Line for the MBA - Performance at the Top

Chapter 5: Wrong Consequences III: Corruption of Established Organizations

Chapter 6: Wreong Consequences IV: Corruption of Our Social Insitutions

Chapter 7: New MBA?

Part II: Developing Managers

Chapter 8: Management Development

Chapter 9: Developing Management Education