From Financial Times
Want to be a chief executive? Get an MBA
By Herminia Ibarra, Urs Peyer and Morten T. Hansen
The global recession may be almost over but the debate rumbles on. How much were MBA-trained executives really to blame?
As MBA professors, we heard arguments that we had been teaching the wrong models, neglecting ethics, forgetting common sense, sitting in ivory towers made of spreadsheets and generally nurturing greed. We listened to the charge that business schools were guilty of short-term thinking, especially when evaluating leadership. MBA graduates, so the argument went, were looking for quick riches....
Herminia Ibarra is a professor of organisational behaviour and the Cora chaired professor of leadership and learning at Insead. Urs Peyer is an associate professor of leadership and learning at Insead. Morten T. Hansen is a management professor at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Information, and at Insead.