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Planning the Development of Builders, Leaders and Managers for 21st-Century Business: Curriculum Review at Columbia Business School

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  1. Noel Capon

    1. Graduate School of Business, Columbia University, USA

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Introduction to the Study

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Purpose of the Study

      • Noel Capon
      Pages 3-14

    3. The Growth of Business Education

      • Noel Capon
      Pages 15-38

    4. Theoretical and Empirical Underpinnings

      • Noel Capon
      Pages 39-55

  3. Historical Development at Columbia Business School

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 57-57
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    2. Curriculum Review at Columbia Business School: The 1950s and 1960s

      • Noel Capon
      Pages 59-84

    3. Initiating the Curriculum Review Process in the Early 1990s

      • Noel Capon
      Pages 85-97

    4. Curriculum Review and the Strategic Planning Process

      • Noel Capon
      Pages 99-120

  4. Contemporary Curriculum Review at Columbia Business School

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 121-121
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    2. Developing the Information Base for Curriculum Redesign

      • Noel Capon
      Pages 123-149

    3. Early Development of a New Curriculum Design

      • Noel Capon
      Pages 151-177

    4. The Process of Forging the Curriculum Review Proposal

      • Noel Capon
      Pages 179-209

    5. Key Issues in Designing Individual Courses

      • Noel Capon
      Pages 211-240

    6. Key Structural Issues Concerning the MBA Program as a Whole

      • Noel Capon
      Pages 241-251

  5. Implementing and Executing the New Curriculum

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 253-253
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    2. Implementing the New Curriculum

      • Noel Capon
      Pages 255-270

    3. Executing the New Curriculum

      • Noel Capon
      Pages 271-291
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About this book

Business and management education has an important impact on business practice throughout the world. To a very large extent, possession of the MBA degree is a passport into the upper reaches of management, and CEOs of many major corporations have earned an MBA. It is a reasonable inference that the education received by these leaders and managers during their MBA experience has an important impact on the way that businesses throughout the world are led and managed and that major corporate decisions are made. The heart of the MBA education is the curriculum, and curriculum design is perhaps the most important strategic function for a business school faculty to undertake.
In order to understand the many issues concerning this contemporary curriculum review, this book examines three related contextual domains. First, it details the long-term growth of business and management education. Second, it examines the major theoretical and empirical literatures on organizational evolution and decision making, paying special attention to decision making in institutions of higher education. Finally, the book describes the previous major curriculum review at Columbia Business School in the late 1950s and the subsequent changes that formed the curriculum that was changed in 1992.
This book demonstrates what can be achieved by an institution that sets high standards for its business education, and assists faculty and administrators in other schools of business and management as they contemplate revision of their curricula. In addition, it provides a prime example of curriculum design effort in one of the leading institutions worldwide. Finally, it will be of interest to scholars in several different fields, notably, higher education curriculum review, organizational decision making and long-run organizational evolution.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Graduate School of Business, Columbia University, USA

    Noel Capon

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Planning the Development of Builders, Leaders and Managers for 21st-Century Business: Curriculum Review at Columbia Business School

  • Authors: Noel Capon

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1822-1

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Kluwer Academic Publishers 1996

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-9728-1Published: 30 June 1996

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-7312-7Published: 01 October 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-1822-1Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 490

  • Topics: Human Resource Management, Management

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