CHAPTER EIGHT
Ideas Worth Teaching
There is no finish line.—T-SHIRT OF A JOGGER IN CENTRAL PARK
WHEN I LEFT the Ford Foundation in 1998 with a three-year grant to launch an initiative at the Aspen Institute, my focus was on what was taught in business schools. I hoped to stimulate dialogue in academic circles about how the purpose of business is framed in classrooms and sought to broaden the metrics of business success.
We have made progress; there is more to do. Business schools are part of a distinctive system with lots of critics but also a fair number of levers for change. To try to measure the value of business education is a lot like trying to define quality or “good art”; what is needed or found desirable evolves with the times, and with ...
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