Bulldoze the business school
I graduated from business school last spring.<p>It’s not that they need to be bulldozed, but rather, treated as a trade school.<p>Our highest rated classes were taught by practitioners - those in the Arena, leading men and women, making the difficult ethical choices, then posing them to us to wrestle through. These were the classes we all wanted to take, but were deeply oversubscribed and only a fraction of us got to take.<p>The practitioners were sidelined by the academics. The theorists and mere paper-writers - many of whom either utterly failed at business or never spent a day outside the university environment.<p>Not one of my MBA classmates planned to teach - yet we
spent most of our required class time being taught by those in power with the least relevance to the real world.<p>The real revolution in business education will
occur when the academics relinquish control, and let those who’ve learned through hard fought experience take the reins.<p>My experience was incredible - my classmates were the most impressive folks I’ve ever met. And the value there was incalculable. But the education was easily replicable, aside from the phenomenal courses taught by practitioners.