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INSIDE THIS ISSUE
Innovation in a jam
Bruno Chaintron why managers nd it
so hard to be different
EPAS scales up
Ulrich Hommel onhow the accreditation
system adds value
Culture club
Why David Saundersbelieves Canada can
lead the world
In the know
Emeralds DavidLamond on the new
knowledge brokers
Virtually real
Berry Beattie holdsforth on the wonders
of Second Life
Learning for
tomorrowBryce Taylor explains
Co-operative Inquiry
EFMD
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Lorange sets sailPeter Lorange is to retire as Presidentof IMD next year. Here he talks about hislong career in management education
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EFMD
International Deans Programme (IDP)In association with EFMD and the ABS
A fabulous networking
opportunity to collaborate
internationally
The role of a business school dean has become increasinglypressured and challenging in a highly competitive global
environment. This new programme is aimed at recently
appointed deans/directors of business schools which are
members of ABS and/or EFMD. It enables a group of up
to 20 international deans to visit business schools in three
countries, gaining a unique overview of strategy, operations,
structures and future markets in business and
management education.
The three compulsory modules comprise study visits to:
Module 1 Lausanne5-6 December 2007. Led by Prof. Peter Lorange at IMD
Module 2 Boston
16-18 April 2008. Hosted by Babson College, Bentley College,
Boston University, MIT Sloan School of Management
and Harvard Business School for its centenary
Module 3 Lisbon
2-3 June 2008, at Faculdade de Economia de Universidade
Nova de Lisboa, led by Prof. Jose Antonio Ferreira Machado.
Costs
14500 for members of EFMD and/or ABS
15000 for non members of EFMD and ABSExcluding accommodation and ights
For expressions of interest, please contact
Virginie Heredia-Rosa, EFMD
Julie Davies, ABS
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EFMD Global Focus Volume 01_Issue 03 2007 In focus... page 01
Volume 01_Issue 03 2007
In focus...
Our cover story is a valedictory interview with Peter Lorange, who next year will retire
as President o IMD in Lausanne, Switzerland, afer 15 years.
By any objective measure Pro Lorange has had a phenomenally successul career in
management education on both sides o the Atlantic and internationally, though in the
latter part o his career, both at IMD and as head o the Norwegian School o Management,
it was very much in the European context. He has been a strong, consistent and much-
valued supporter o EFMD.
Although some may argue about the universal applicability o the strategy that has
made IMD so successul (see, or example, Using technology to lure executives back
to business schools by Deniz Saral on page 24 o this issue), it cannot be denied that it
has worked or IMD at least. Revenue has risen rom around 20 million in 1993 when
he took over a leader to 68 million in 2006.
In his orthcoming bookhought Leadership Meets Business: How Business Schools
Can Become More Successful(already widely circulated in draf) Pro Lorange sets out
his analysis o the challenges that currently ace business schools and the actors that can
help them respond successully. It is a compelling description and rationale o the strategy
he has ollowed at IMD, an institution that was in some difficulty when he took over.
In the final pages he gives a summary o the secrets o IMDs success. It seems appropriate
that here, in the first words o Global Focus, we provide an edited summary o Pro
Loranges (possibly?) final words on the subject:
For a business school to be successul, its strategies need to have a uniqueness about
them that creates value and competitive advantage. At IMD, the combination o our
pillars makes our strategy highly ocused and unique:
1. Real world, Real learning
2. Te global meeting place
3. All learning is lielong learning
4. Minimalist, internal structure and customer ocus process
Strategic pillars one and two reinorce each other the best o the real world, real learning
meets the global meeting place; the latest new thoughts rom research meet the best o
practice and both aculty and participants learn with and rom one another. It is a lead and
be led value creation process. Pillars three and our depend on the first two minimalism
in particular is derived rom the others , it is a precondition to be able to deliver on them.
Tus, IMDs our-pillar strategy is simple enough to be understood by most, to be
remembered, to be communicated and, perhaps important o all, to be inspirational!
Matine Plompen EditorE:[email protected]
EFMD
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Contents
Volume 01_Issue 03 2007
Executive EditoMatthew Wood
Advisoy BoadEric Cornuel, Jim Herbolich,Howard Thomas (Dean ofWarwick Business School)
EditoMartine Plompen
[email protected] EditoGeorge [email protected]
Contibuting EditosBruno Chaintron, UlrichHommel, Jan Kingsley,David Lamond, DenizSaral, John Saee, GordonShenton, Bryce Taylor
Design & At DiectionJebens Designwww.jebensdesign.co.uk
Photogaphs & IllustationsJebens Design Ltd/EFMDunless otherwise stated
Editoial & AdvetisingMatthew WoodPhone: +32 2 629 [email protected]
EFMD aisblRue Gachard 88 Bo 31050 Brussels, Belgium
www.efmd.og/globalfocus
EFMD
01 In focus...
04 alking shopInternational Deans Programme launched
RABE Workshop on Bologna Agreement
Advisory Services 2008 agenda
08 Lorange sets sail
Peter Lorange retires as President o IMD nextyear. He talks to George Bi ckerstaffe a bouthis long career in management educationand some o the secrets behind the successo one o the worlds leading business schools
14 Te role of research in business education Research has long been problematic in the world
o business education. Gordon Shenton sets outhow the EFMD EUIS accreditation systemnow tackles the issue
18 CSR: making trade work for the poor A special issue oManageme nt Deci sionbased on
the International rade Centre Executive Forum onMaking rade Work or the Poor is available reeonline to EFMD members. David Lamond explains
20 Corporate innovation: how to solvethe traffic jam problem
Why do managers claim to act rationally but in actbehave in illogical ways that stifle innovation? BrunoChaintron has an answer
24 Using technology to lure executives backto business schools
Deniz Saral argues that the introduction orexpansion o doctoral programmes or executivesand using technology-enhanced e-learning modelsto reduce their cost is one way business schools canincrease the numbers o executive participants
28 Reaching out globally Te EFMD Programme Accreditation System
(EPAS) has launched an ambitious Scale Upinitiative. Ulrich Hommel outlines the b enefits
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32 Culture club: is Canada leading the way? David Saunders, dean o ueens Business School
and EFMD board member, talks about thecustomisation o management education,multiculturalism and adapting to the iPodgeneration. Interview by George Bickerstaffe
38 Publishers as knowledge brokers?
David Lamond argues that the digital age hasundamentally changed the dissemination oscholarly knowledge and the interaction o the mainstakeholders and in particular the role o publisher
42 ime for educators to get a (Second) Life? Jan Kingsley holds a conversation with Berry Beattie,
a lecturer in leadership and organisational behaviour,who is exploring the potential o Second Lie
48 2006 EFMD Case Writing CompetitionWinners
50 Learning for tomorrow: how Co-operativeInquiry works
Co-operative Inquiry as a technique is closelyinvolved in the EFMD/UN Global LeadershipResponsibility Initiative. Br yce aylor explainswhat it is and how it can be used
56 Intercultural awareness is the keyto international business success
John Saee outlines why managers need to developinteractive skills or dealing with people rom differentcultures to be able to capitalise on burgeoninginternational markets
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EPASs ambitious Scale Upproject is launched page 28
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Talking shopNews and events in bief fom the business wold
EUIS Accreditation Seminar AustraliaThe rst EQUIS Accreditation Seminar will take place in Sydney on Friday 26th October
2007, hosted by the Macquarie Graduate School of Management. The seminar is
targeted at both EQUIS accredited schools that want to get a better understanding
of the EQUIS standards and criteria and those considering EQUIS accreditation for the
rst time. It will be relevant for Deans and Directors, Directors of Eternal Relations and
those responsible for accreditation within the school as well as eperienced EQUIS Peer
Reviewers. A limited number of places are available for this seminar and places will be
granted on a rst come rst served basis.
For more information, please contact:Gladys Evangelista [email protected]
or Emma Keating [email protected] or telephone the EFMD Quality Services
Ofce on +32 2 629 0810 to reserve your place.
International Deans Programme (IDP) launchedIMD, Babson College, Harvard, MIT Sloan School of Management & Universidade
Nova de Lisboa will host the newly launched IDP in association with ABS. The role of
a business school dean has become increasingly pressured and challenging in a highly
competitive global environment. This new programme, beginning in December 2007,
is aimed at recently appointed deans/directors of business schools which are
members of ABS and/or EFMD. It is a fabulous networking opportunity to collaborateinternationally. The IDP enables a group of up to 20 international deans to visit
business schools in three countries. You will gain a unique overview of strategy,
operations, structures and future markets in business and management education.
The three compulsory modules comprise study visits to:
Lausanne, 5-6 December 2007, led by Prof Peter Lorange at IMD.
Boston, 16-18 April 2008, hosted by Babson College, Bentley College, Boston
University, MIT Sloan School of Management and Harvard Business School
for its centenary.
Lisbon, 2-3 June 2008, at Faculdade de Economia de Universidade Nova de
Lisboa, led by Prof Jose Antonio Ferreira Machado.
For more information please contact: Virginie Heredia-Rosa:[email protected] or Julie Davies, ABS: [email protected]
Registration now open for the first EFMD / GMAC2007 MBA Deans and Programme DirectorsSymposium, Hong Kong7/8/9 November 2007 From Adaptation to Innovation: Learning from Asia,
A Symposium on Graduate Management Education.
Intercontinental Grand Stanford Hotel, Kowloon (Tsim Sha Tsui East), Hong Kong.
For Deans, Associate Deans, Program Deans, and Program Directors
from business schools around the world.For more information, please contact:Helke Carvalho Hernandes [email protected]
Roland Van Dierdonckjoins EFMD ualityServicesProf Roland Van Dierdonck the
former dean of the Vlerick Leuven
Gent Management School has joinedthe EFMD Quality Services team
as an Associate Director. We are
delighted to welcome Roland into
the quality services department.
His eperience and knowledge as a
Dean of an EQUIS accredited school
and active peer reviewer will be very
benecial as EQUIS continues to
set the benchmark for international
business school accreditation,
said Julio Urgel, the EQUIS Director.
Advisory Services 2008 agenda now launchedFollowing the success of the EFMD
Advisory Services Seminars in 2007
the programme for 2008 has just
been announced. Please see page 36
in this issue of Global Focus for full
details or visit
www.efmd.org/advisoryservices
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EFMD Global Focus Volume 01_Issue 03 2007 Taling shop pages04_05
SOUNDBITES
Responsible leadership and developing thenext generation o business leaders is at the
orefont o the work o EFMD and the GRLIEric Cornuel, CEO, EFMD
EFMD and the Globally Responsible Leaders Initiative(GRLI) play a leading role in developing the Principlesfor Responsible Management EducationThe Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) were presented
to the United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon on Thursday, July 5, 2007
at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland.The initiative was developed by an international task force of 60 deans, university
presidents and ofcial representatives of leading business schools. It was co-
convened by the United Nations Global Compact with the active support and
guidance of EFMD, the Globally Responsible Leadership Initiative (GRLI), EABIS,
AACSB, the Aspen Institutes Business and Society Program and Net Impact.
Responsible leadership and developing the net generation of business leaders
is at the forefront of the work of EFMD and the GRLI. We welcome the principles
that have been developed in conjunction with the UN Global Compact and our
other highly respected partners and trust that they will serve as a starting point
for the management education sector, which has tremendous inuence and
societal responsibility in developing the net generation of business leaders,said Eric Cornuel, CEO of EFMD.
For more information on the GRLI visit www.globallyresponsibleleaders.net
Top (left to right):
Gerhard Van Schaik, EFMDPresident; Ban Ki-moon,United Nations SecretaryGeneral; David Saunders,Dean, Queens School ofBusiness and EFMD BoardMember
Right:
Anders Aspling, SecretaryGeneral GRLI and Deanof Vlerick Leuven GentManagement School
Online EFMDExecutive EducationDirectory launchedThe brand-new EFMD eecutive
education directory will be launched
on 14 October 2007.
The new directory is a freemembership service to EFMD
corporate and business schools
members that includes:
Proles of over 100+ executive
education providers in Europe
Over 2000 course descriptions
Data on participants prole
Practical data on courses
Full programme information
Are you trying a locate a master-class
to brush up your knowledge onleadership skills?
Would you prefer to participate in
a course with fellow senior people
having at least 15 years of eperience?
Are you looking for a programme
on entrepreneurship in Spain?
More information is available via
www.efmd.org/eed
or by contacting Patsy Van Autreve
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Talking shopNews and events in bief fom the business wold
The rle f tp tertl ccredtts speedg up
the prcesses f busess educt tertlst.
The future shape of the global higher education system
is a matter of great concern for academics, politicians and
people of business. The 46 participating countries of the
Bologna Accord have been working hard at putting into
practice the basic principles of the Declaration. The aimis to introduce a set of new standards to help universities
and business schools develop an international perspective
through teaching national students at home and abroad.
The Russian Association of Business Education (RABE)
Workshop on Russias entry into the European Higher
Education Area (EHEA) brought together in Brussels deans
and directors of top Russian business schools and eperts
from top international accrediting organisations EFMD,
AACSB, AMBA and ECBE. The Workshops took place at
EFMD Headquarters in Brussels in May 2007.
The venue and date were not chosen at random.Brussels in early May is lovely owerbeds, trees and orchards
are in full blossom, the Irises Festival in Grand Place on
Saturday attracts tourists from all over the world. But early
May is also the eve of the new academic year enrolment to
universities and business schools worldwide. It is the time
of decision making.
School-leavers are choosing universities and sending out
their application forms all over the world. Institutes and
universities are busy designing and updating their courses,
while presenting partnership programmes for validation and
accreditation. This is the time of turmoil and making a choice the crucial time for both parties to the study process.
International accreditations eperts Prof Steve Watson
(AACSB), Peter Calladine (AMBA) Prof Chris Greensted
(EFMD) and Prof Bob Jophson (ECBE) were invited to
the RABE Workshop to present their associations criteria
for quality assurance.
Russian eperts RABE President Prof Leonid Evenko,
Prof Vladimir Godin, Chairman of the RABE Board, and
Prof Sergey Mjasoedov, RABE Vice-President, spoke about
the internationalisation of business education in Russia,
which match the Bologna Accord trends in Europe. Two top
Russian diplomats from the Permanent Mission of Russia
in the European Communities, Nikolay Revenko (Deputy-
Head) and Nikolay Ivanov (Chief of the department), gave
Workshop participants details of the latest developments
in cultural and educational areas of the European Union
and presented Russias perspectives. They assessed the
changes which have been taking place in education as
highly important for Russia, since these changes willput the systems of higher education in Europe closer
to each other, make them transparent, comparable and
mutually complementing. It means that students of the
46 Bologna signatory countries will have more knowledge,
skills and competences in common. As a result they
will have equal employment opportunities in future.
The Workshop concluded with, Eric Cornuel, Director General
and CEO of the EFMD, and Natalia Evtikhieva, Director
General of RABE, signing a co-operation agreement between
EFMD and RABE, which formally acknowledged what has in
fact been in eistence for over 10 years a fruitful, mutually
enriching and strategically forward-looking partnership.
RABE Workshop on Bologna Agreement
Top (left to right):
Leonid Evenko, Eric Cornuel,Natalia Evtikhieva,Jim Herbolich
Left:
Elena Zoubkova
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EFMD Global Focus Volume 01_Issue 03 2007 pages06_07
Strategic Change
Management inthe Public Sector
AN EFMD EUROPEAN CASE BOOK
This casebook collects eleven casesfrom different public sectororganisations based in differentEuropean countries. The casesdeal with public organisations atlocal level, involving both mediumand big sized organisations.
Every case faces a different area ofinnovation: from new organisationalstructuring to new performanceevaluation systems, from improvedcustomer relation approachesto innovative public-privatepartnerships. Every managerialinnovation is presented in itsdesign and implementation phases,both evaluating nal impacts andascertaining the eplanatory driversconducive to better performances.
Different public sector organisationsare considered: local governments,public utilities, health care agenciesand mass transports.
The aim is to provide readers witha wide and heterogeneous overview.This gives readers the chance tolook at the difculties of changemanagement processes in differentscenarios; on top of it, the readerscan evaluate the impact of different
strategies to face these difculties.
The book is aimed at readers whowant to better understand strategicchange management approachesin public administration, for thosewho are interested in learning fromevidences, for trainers and professorslooking for European cases for classdiscussions, for policy makers searchingfor new ideas and change approaches.
Purchasing details
If you are interested in purchasingthis book, please contact:
Helke Carvalho Hernandes at [email protected] visit www.efmd.org/publications
Contains detailed inormation about the design andimplementation phases o managerial innoations
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Loangesets sailPETER LORANGE RETIRES AS PRESIDENTOF IMD NExT YEAR. HERE HE TALKS TOGEOrGE BICkErSTAFFEABOUT HIS LONGCAREER IN MANAGEMENT EDUCATION ANDSOME OF THE SECRETS OF HIS SUCCESS
In late spring 2008 Peter Lorange, right, will retire
as President (effectively dean) of the International
Institute for Management Development IMD
in Lausanne, Switzerland a month or so short
of completing a three-term 15-year incumbency.
He is remarkably relaxed about it.
Well I dont have much choice. Te mandatory retirement
age is 65, he says. I dont see it as very dramatic.
He will be replaced by Dr John R Wells, currently Proessor
o Management Practice at Harvard Business School.
Tough Lorange will probably stay on as a aculty
member or a year it is in effect the end o a remarkably
long and distinguished career in management education.
Beore joining IMD he was president o the Norwegian
School o Management or our years and had previously
spent a decade at the Wharton School, University o
Pennsylvania, including a stint as director o its Joseph
H Lauder Institute o Management and International
Studies and other departments, ollowing eight years
teaching at the Sloan School o Management at
Te Massachusetts Institute o echnology (MI).
When Dr Lorange joined I MD on July 1 , 1993,
where as well a s President he has been the Nestl
Proessor o Strategy, the school was very differentrom the international powerhouse it is today.
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To be a dean now youhave to be professionalenough so that peoplewant you to be effectiveand to succeed
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113Revenue has risen from aroundSF33 million (720 million)
in 1993 to SF113 million (768million) in 2006
IMD was created in 1990 as a merger between two ex isting Swiss
management development institutes IMI in Geneva and IMEDE
on the current IMD site in Lausanne. Tough very similar IMIwas ounded by Al can Aluminium in 1 946 and IMEDE in 1957 by
Nestl SA getting their two cultures to work effectively together
had deeated Dr Loranges predecessors.
Te situation was messy, he admits. People werent pulling together.
It took two years to turn it round and his first move, a rather t ypical
combination o modesty and guile, was to ask ever y aculty member
to write down the three things they would do i they were in his shoes.
As well as signalling an inclusive and democratic approach it also,
he points out with a laugh, gave me a great database o ideas.
Since then Lorange and IMD have never really looked back. Revenue
has risen rom around SF33 million (20 million) in 1993 to SF113
million (68 million) in 2006 and building work has transormed
the old IMEDE campus on the shores o Lake Geneva.
Dr Lorange was educated at the Norwegian School o Economics
and Business and gained an MA in operations management rom
Yale University and a Doctor o Business Administration degree rom
Harvard. He is a prolific writer, not least on the subject o the governance
and management o management education institutions and the role oa business school dean, something he believes has changed considerably
during his time in the position.
He says he learned a lot rom working with Russel l Palmer [dean o
Wharton rom1983 to1990] during his time at the school. But while
Dean Palmer took a top-down viewpoint deans are not there to win
a popularity contest or to say yes to everyone according to Dr Lorange,
that has changed. Now power and influence has to be earned rom the
bottom up.
o be a dean now you have to be proessional enough so that people
want you to be effecti ve and to succeed, he says. But that doesntmean I can be wishy-washy. Tey expect me to lead. Its a very difficult
job. Te acul ty team, the whole school really, must eel that youre
working or them. You have to work ver y hard.
He has certainly had no problem with hard work. Its probably not a
well-known act but as well a s an academic ca reer that ha s included
running two leading European business schools, Dr Lorange has since
1988 also on the side, as he puts it owned and run a successul
offshore services shipping company, Ugelstads Rederi, in his native
Norway (his amil y name reflects a French Huguenot background).
In January 2007 he says he received an offer he couldnt reuseand sold the company to the Athens-based Aries shipping group
or a reported NOK730 million (92.5 million).
Dr Lorange was not involved in the search or his successor, something
he says is absolutely correct. It was handled by a six-man search
committee (three executives rom IMD partner companies and
three IMD aculty).
He was not, however, a totally disinterested observer and his latest
book, Tought Leadership Meets Business: How Business S chools Can
Become More Successful ,currently circulated to riends in draf and
due to be published later this year or next, is a pretty straightorward
account o the reasons or IMDs success and how to maintain it.
There is a huge responsibilityon both business schoolsand business to interact witheach other
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It is, he admits, aimed at my successor. I said to mysel that I have quite
a lot o knowledge and experience and why shouldnt I share that with
both the search committee and the candidates?
Dr Loranges recipe or business school success is airly simple: wherever
possible business schools should be independent, they should resist
unction-based and hierarchal aculty organisations and, particularly, the
tenure system, and they should base their teaching on relevant research
brought quickly into the classroom.
While he agrees t hat there is no one-size-fits-al l model t hat wil l make
a top business school, he argues that it is hard to think o the classic
inflexible European university model as one that w ill bring success.
So in that sense, he says, I think that, as with IMD and INSEAD, you arebetter off being independent. You can still be successul as part o a university
but only i it allows you as a business school to be speedy and flexible.
One reason or this, he say, is that in general academics avour a
discipline-oriented, axiomatic system when what is needed today
is more cross-disciplinar y, cross-axiomatic thinking. So tenure and
publishing processes that avour a discipline-oriented traditional
approach may produce a aculty profile that is not necessarily what
a school needs.
I think that happens more easi ly in university-based business schools,
he says. At IMD we dont have academic departments, we dont havetenure, and we dont have hierarchies or titles.
And, he says, though IMD has a somewhat unusual and complex system
or recruiting aculty it has less problems finding aculty than many
other schools.
In a way Im quite surprised at that, he says. I think it may be academics
themselves who are most ed up with the traditional system.
Even so, IMD has some ver y long-serving proessors. Does he think
thats a good thing?
I think so, so long as people understand that we dont have tenure. Tey
have to contribute or they will be asked to leave. S o I think its a good
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thing that they understand they have to earn their keep every year. I
remember when I was at Wharton I had tenure and it really didnt make
any difference whether or not I did any work. I dont think thats healthy.
His latest book and his conversation are both ull o the need or what
he calls research-based executive development, with the emphasis on
research that is relevant.
Relevant to whom is a question that is simply answered:
It must be relevant rom the point o view o practice, he says. I
practice has no interest in the research thats being done, then I dont
think it has any relevance.
As he also points out, this means there is a huge responsibility on
both business schools and business to interact with each other. Andhe agrees that innovation can, effectively, only come rom business
and that business schools are always trying to c atch up.
In his latest book he argues that:
Te long-standing philosophy that good research must have a heavy
emphasis on axiomatic, disciplinary thinking, with hypothesis testing
and reutation o truth, is increasingly being replaced by a lead and
be led research philosophy. Academics, through their research, might
come up with positions that represent cutting-edge thinking. However,
it must be articulated and presented in such a way that it can be
understood by leading practitionersFor researchers this means a uniqueway to develop their research insights urther logical incrementalism,
grounded theory building.
In person he puts it more colourull y bringing hal-baked research
ideas into a classroom o experienced global executive that offers
tremendous learning opportunities or everyone.
Strategy, Dr Lorange is ond o saying, is choice. Te choice o his successor,
unlike many corporate CEOs, was not in his hands. But the strategy o
IMD, idiosyncratic to some but undeniably successul, seems set firm.
Strategy, Dr Lorange is fond ofsaying, is choice... the strategyof IMD, idiosyncratic to somebut undeniably successful,seems set rm
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European Foundation for Management Development
and Graduate Management Admission Council
2007 MBA Deans and Pogamme DiectosSymposium
Dates7-9 November 2007
LocationIntercontinental Grand Stanford HotelKowloon (Tsim Sha Tsui East), Hong Kong
ThemeFrom Adaptation to Innovation: Learning from Asia A Symposium on Graduate Management Education
Attendees
Deans, Associate Deans and Program Directors frombusiness schools around the world
Alternative Strategies for the Internationalisationof Graduate Management Education
Social Networking and the Global Network of Learning
Technology Visions The Corporate Voice
Sustainable Leadership
B-School Partner Models
The Indian MBA Market
HR Issues and Leadership Styles in Asia
The Chinese MBA Market
EFMD
For more information, please contact Helke Carvalho Hernandes: [email protected] or visit www.efmd.org
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EFMD Global Focus Volume 01_Issue 03 2007 The ole of eseach in business education by Gordon Shenton pages14_15
Research has always been a difcult issue for business
studies. The vocational nature of these studies, the lack
of clear disciplinary boundaries and the deep-rooted
suspicion in some academic circles that the various
sub-elds are not scientically based have long been
handicaps. It has never been easy to nd a consensus
on how research should be dened or on what should
be considered acceptable research output.
Te need to prove that business studies are a serious academic discipline
has pushed the proession towards over-investment in research aimedessentially at other academics through publication in reereed academic
journals, laying business schools open to criticisms that they are producing
mountains o obscure and irrelevant research. Tis is particularly true in
America where the tenure and promotion system is based essential ly on
academic publication though a similar drif has probably been occurring
in Europe.
On the other hand, there is a recognition that research must serve other
purposes and other constituencies, that it must, in some more direct way,
be useul to students, companies and managers though this carries with it
the risk that it may be deemed unworthy o academic consideration. Tedebate has recently crystallised around the spurious opposition between
rigour and relevance.
Tis long-standing debate within the management education
proession on the role o research in business schools has, thereore,
always been a particularly thorny issue or accreditation bodies. In
the definition o their expectations, in the ormulation o their criteria
and in the way in which assessments are carried out in practice they
will inevitably in fluence the behaviour o business sch ools. Tey must
be seen to stand behind the principle that the quality o a schools
teaching staff is linked to the qualit y o their intellectual activity.
However, they must avoid the pitall o defining research too narrowly
and thereby sending out the message that only publication in academic
journal s wil l be seen as serious research.
Given this state o affairs, it is particularly significant that both EFMD
and AACSB International have recently taken strong positions on the
role and nature o research in business education in an attempt to clariy
the debate or the schools they evaluate. A draf report o the AACSB
International Impact o Research task orce is currently being circulated
or comments. I the recommendations put orw ard by the task orce
receive sufficient approval, they wil l presumably be written into the
accreditation standards.
Earlier this year, official approval was given to the new EUIS
Standards and Criteria document afer almost two years o d iscussion
within the membership. Te chap ter on research is the result o
extensive revision and now stands as a major statement o the EUIS
approach to this activity.
In addition to its primary unction as a ramework or assessing
research in the accreditation process, the chapter is also intended
to provide more general guidance to business schools in defining
their strategy in this area. It can be seen as an EFMD position paper
on research in business education.Given the dominance o the academic model in America, AACSB
has perhaps a more difficult task to convince business academia that
there is a need or a broader definition o research and a shif rom the
measurement o output to the measurement o impact.
However, EUIS shares the same concern in Europe and the rest o
the world, although the context is substantially different. Tere is greater
diversity among university systems across the 40-plus countries o the
European continent.
For example, many o Europes best-ranked business schools are not
ormally within the university system and are ar more market oriented;
A university business schoolwill probably place greater
emphasis on academicresearch while an independentbusiness school serving acorporate market will mostlikely seek professionalrelevance in its research effort
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the tenure system is not always so constraining; and language barriers in many cases
make it impossible or aculty members to publish in the so-called top international
journal s, whic h are mostl y Americ an.
Nonetheless, European institutions are eeling the same pressure to conorm to the
academic model and need reassuring that the accreditation bodies do not expect
them all to behave li ke research-driven US business schools.
Te principle that research should have an impact is firmly written into the EUISStandard at the beginning o the chapter on research:
he School should regularly produce original contributions to knowledge that are effectively
disseminated. hese should demonstrably make an impact on one or more constituencies
that are strategically important for the successful development of the School: academic peers,
management professionals, students, etc.
Research activity itsel is classified into three categories academic research, practice-
oriented research and pedagogic development and innovation to reflect the act that
intellectual production in business schools covers a wi de spectrum o outputs and
that there is a need or broader, more flexible definitions.
It is explicitly stated that within each category output will be assessed by its impact onthe relevant constituency: the international academic community in the case o academic
research, business practitioners or practice-oriented research and educational
practitioners in pedagogical development and innovation.
Te criteria are constructed around the principle that assessment must take into
account a number o variables which, taken together in a given mix, determine any
particular schools research policy.
First, there should be clarity about the purposes o research. At the most basic level ,
it is an activity that enables aculty members to keep abreast o their discipline, to
improve their teaching and to advance in their proession. Te qualification o the
aculty as a whole depends on as many members as possible having some orm oproductive intellectual activity. Doctoral research is a means o qualiying aspiring
teachers or entry into the proession.
Another undamental requirement is that research should eed into a schools
teaching programmes. Te abilit y o a school to transorm its research activity into
renewed programme content is a key success actor in portolio management at all
levels, whether at undergraduate level or in executive education.
Next, research activity contributes to the practice o management by defining new tools
and techniques, by helping managers to improve their perormance or by broadening
their understanding o issues that affect decisions.
Research in a university environment is designed to enrich the collective body o
knowledge and understanding within the academic proession. It may be intended
to ulfil the observatory unction o critically tracking an industry, a market, an
enterprise category and so on either independently or in liaison w ith a government
agency or other organisation.
A related purpose is to allow a school to serve as a orum or public debate on issues
that are o concern to society at large.
Finally, the intellectual activity o certain aculty members may be geared towards the
creation o new instructional methods and materials or towards new course design.
Tis multiplicity o purpose is mirrored in the diversity o ormats or the disseminationo aculty members intellectual production aimed at a vari ety o d ifferent audiences:
The pursuit ofaccreditation shouldnot lead schools to setunrealistic objectives asregards their researchprole. Their resourcebase in terms of faculty
and funding may notbe sufcient to supporttheir aspirations
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articles in academic journals, articles in practitioner journals, conerence presentations,
monographs, studies, reports, textbooks or students, books or managers, books
or other academics, chapters in books, case studies and instructional sofware.
A table at the end o the research chapter sets out accordingly a ty pology o research
and development activity, categorising the objectives o the intellectual activity, the
audience or whom its relevance must be measured and the dissemination vehicles
(articles, books, case studies and so on).
Whereas most accredited school s wil l have some productio n in al l three areas,
the main ocus or the particular mix will depend very much on the type o school,
the profile o its aculty, the unding available, the markets that it is ser ving and the
strategic choices that have been made.
A university business school w ill probably place greater emphasis on academic
research while an independent business school serv ing a corporate market will most
likely seek proessional relevance in its research effort. Whatever the mix, EUIS will
be looking or ev idence o productive intellectual activity with measurable outcomes.
Te key measures o quality in all three types o research will be the relevance and
impact on the different audiences, constituencies or stakeholders that a school is serving,as well a s its contribution to teaching qualit y. However, it should be emphasised that
a purely vocational or the exclusively practice-oriented school with a sole emphasis
on teaching will not qualiy.
Te expectation is that all schools that are accredited will be able to demonstrate
that they are productive in some areas o the intellectual activity spectrum described
above, that there are processes in place or the management and monitoring o the
research agenda and that they allo cate time and resources to support aculty members.
It is urther expected that schools will have an explicit, publicly stated strategy and
policy regarding research. At one extreme, this may only be a commitment to the
principle that research is an indivi dual concern and that it cannot be managedcentrally. But even in such cases, recruitment policy, workload allocation, evaluation
and reward processes provide a context in whic h research can prosper.
In most schools, the research effort itsel requires some planned guidance in the orm
o targeted specialisations, centrally managed research centres, an encouragement to
pursue collaborative research and so on. Tis is particularly true o the many schools
around the world that are currently striving to upgrade their research potential, ofen
rom a situation in which research was given a low priorit y.
However, a word o caution is in order: the pursuit o accreditation should not lead
schools to set unrealistic objectives as regards their research profile. Teir resource
base in terms o aculty and unding may not be sufficient to support their aspirations.
It is encouraging that EFMD and AACSB International, rom their different
perspectives, are seeking a more balanced approach to the assessment o research in
business schools. Te emphasis on relevance and impact coming rom both sides o
the Atlantic and the common desire to bring research closer to practice are strong
messages or the management education proession.
ABOUT THE AUTHOrGordon Shenton is Associate Director, EFMD Quality Services Department
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Crprte Scl Respsblty
Making tradework for the poor
Whether the discussions are rooted
in philosophical, legal, political
or geopolitical origins, companies
and communities alike are paying
increasing attention to the idea of
corporate social responsibility (CSR).
On both sides o the Atlantic, companies are
seeking to integrate social and environmental
concerns into their business operations, investing
more in their people, the environment and their
relations with stakeholders.
At the World Economic Forum in January
1999, the then Secretary-General o the
United Nations, Kofi Annan, challenged
business leaders to join the Global Compact
an international initiative to promote
responsible corporate citizenship so that
business can be part o the solution to the
challenges o globalisation in the areas o
human rights, l abour, the environment and
anti-corruption and create a more sustainableand inclusive global economy.
One o the more well-known examples on
the company side is Nike, which makes sports
ootwear and clothing. Inamous in the
1990s or the third-world sweatshops o
its overseas suppliers, Nike is now exercising
its corporate social responsibilities. It has
developed a g lobal corporate responsibility
strategy that includes improving working
conditions in its contract actories through
a holistic, integrated business approach to
our supply chain. Now Nike has been named
number 69 in the2007 Fortune 100 Best
Companies to Work Forlist, moving up 31
places rom 2006. Yet, despite the efforts
o companies such as Nike and others, along
with the work o the UN and EU, the pligh t
o the worlds poor is no less stark.
In his preace to the 2006 United Nations
World Economi c and So cial Survey, Mr
Annan observed: Our world is richer than
ever beore, but it is also marked by enormousinequalities, both within and between
countries. Te average annual income o
someone living in the worlds richest countr y,
Luxembourg, is more than one hundred times
larger than that o the average citizen o Sierra
Leone, one o the worlds poorest. Such big
differences in living standards should
be a matter o great concern
because they reflect serious inequalities in lie
opportunities. Tis calls or a robust policy
response at both the national and international
levels, so that all countries can achieve the
Millennium Development Goals and other
agreed development objectives.
As part o its response to this challenge,
the International rade Centre (IC) held
an Executive Forum on Making rade Work
or the Poor, in Berlin in September 2006.
Emerald Group Publishing, in conjunctionwith IC and UNC AD/WO, decided
to publish a special issue oManageme nt
Decisionusing selected papers rom
the 2006 Executive Forum,
A SPECIAL ISSUE OF MANAGEMENT DECISIONON THE INTERNATIONALTRADE CENTRE ExECUTIVE FORUM ON MAKING TRADE WORK FOR THEPOOR IS AVAILABLE ONLINE TO EFMD MEMBERS. DaviD LamonDExPLAINS
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aLLEviaTinG PovERTY THRoUGH TRaDE
GUEST EDITORS
Dr David Lamond
and Dr Rocky Dwyer
FOREWORD
Eric Cornuel
Director General EFMD
MAKING TRADE WORK FOR THE POOR
Patricia R Francis
Executive Director
International Trade Centre
EDITORIAL
Corporate social responsibility:
making trade work for the poor
David Lamond
aRTiCLES
Managing the linkage between export development and poverty reduction:
An effective framework
Frederick Owen Skae, Brian Barclay
The Great Game evolves for Central Asia and opportunities beckon
John Kidd
Is South-South trade the answer to alleviating poverty?
Osvaldo R Agatiello
The South African poor white problem in the early twentieth century:
Lessons for poverty today
Johan Fourie
Company and society: The Caras do Brasil (Faces of Brazil) program as
leverage for sustainable development
Luciano Barin Cruz, Eugenio Avila Pedrozo,
Rosangela Bacima, Beatriz Queiroz
Trade from the ground up: A case study of a grass roots NGO using
agricultural programs to generate economic viability in developing
countries
Allison Duke, Charla Long
Transaction costs in group microcredit in India
Savita Shankar
Alleviating poverty: how do we know the scope of the problem and when
we have solved it?
Rocky J Dwyer
The elephant in the room: gender and export-led poverty reduction Astrid
Ruiz Thierry
REaD iT
EFMD members have free access to this journal via the following web address:
www.efmd.org/journals
ManagementDecision
AlleviatingpovertythroughtradeGuest Editors:DrDavidLamond andDrRockyDwyer
Volume 45 Number8 2007
ISSN 0025-1747
www.emeraldinsight.com
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ABOUT THE AUTHOr
Dr David Lamond, Foundation Dean and Professor,
International Business School Kochi, IndiaEmail:[email protected]
together with a limited number o papers submitted
independen tly or consideration. Tis special issue was
launched at the recent Academy o Management meeting
in Philadelphia and Emerald has agreed with EFMD
to provide special electronic access to the issue or
EFMD members.
ogether, the papers in this special issue constitute a
useul starting point or the exploration o the role that
corporations can play in sustainable utures or all o us.
We hope that we have m ade some small con tributio n
towards making trade work or the poor.
100The number of times largerthe average annual income
of someone living inLuxembourg is of thatof the average citizenof Sierra Leone
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CopoateinnovationHow to solve thetrafc jam problem
WHY DO MANAGERS CLAIM TO ACT RATIONALLYBUT IN FACT BEHAVE IN ILLOGICAL WAYS THAT STIFLEINNOVATION? BrUNO CHAINTrONHAS AN ANSWER
In a recent article in Global Focus, Richard Straub, the EFMD
Director of Development, quoted a survey conducted by the
IBM Institute for Business Value demonstrating that CEOs
see innovation as the top requirement for their companies
to compete in fast-changing global markets. He advocated
that further work should be carried out to integrate innovationinto management practices and not simply into products.
Why is real management innovation so difficult to achieve? What would
it take or managers to act as entrepreneurs? Despite numerous inroads,
academic literature has not yet been able to identiy any individual
psychological attributes that would help predict entrepreneurial success.
Yet intuition says that psychology does matter or innovation. But how?
Lets take a real-lie example.
Everyday when I drive downhill rom Meudon, the suburb west o Paris
where I live, to my office, I have to get through the Carreour de la Ferme
crossroads and every morning it is congested. One day I was waiting atthe last traffic light beore the crossroads and it wasnt looking good.
Some cars were already blocking the intersection. As the traffic li ght
finally turned green, the car in ront o me suddenly accelerated, rushed
a ew metres and quickly stopped stuck with all the other vehicles
at the centre o the crossroads.
Does this ring a bell? In traffic jams, when the light turns green, why do people
rush orward even though cars are blocking the intersection? Isnt it obvious
that this will only make the problem worse? Why do we always have to
put ourselves in even more inextricable situations? Why dont we learn
rom the past to discover better solutions? In short, why are our innovation
capabilities so limited we havent yet solved the traffic jam problem?
A ew months later, I was driving a car in Caliornia. I was approaching
a crossroads where the traffic lights were not unctioning. My old French
instinct resuraced. Would the nightmare start again? o my great surprise,
the traffic was flowing smoothly. Why?
It took me a ew seconds to realise that every driver was a) able to remember
his or her arrival order at the crossroads and b) was very careul to only
enter the crossroads son tou r.
In other words, the lights werent really needed. And two skil ls had made
this miracle possible: a knowledge-acquisition skill (everybody was able
to remember his or her arrival order at the crossroads) and a relationship
skill (nobody was cheating).
Could this possibly be the beginning o a solution to the traffic jam problem?
A ew days later I was back in Meudon meditating in my usual morning
jam. As I w as expecting, the intersection a head o me was bl ocked. But
surprisingly I was eeling no rustration. Te lig ht turned greenand
an idea struck me. It sounded crazy but what about quietly waiting a
ew minutes at the green light without entering the crossroads, even
though its my turn to allow time or the traffic to flow? Wouldnt this
be a much better deal or all the cars blocked in both streets? Imagine
how many minutes, perhaps hours, dozens o drivers would gain, just
because one car would be ready to spend two minutes at a green light.
Te whole world was now looking different. I knew this wasnt just utopia.
Tere was indeed a theoretical solution to the traffic jam problem: just
deciding to wait two minutes at a green light regardless o what all the other
cars were doing. So I reormulated my old question.
Why do we repeat the same behav iours that prevent us rom adopting
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Why dont we learnfrom the past to
discover bettersolutions? In short,why are our innovationcapabilities so limitedwe havent yet solvedthe trafc jam problem?
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more efficient innovations? Why do we repeatedly rush when the light
turns green? Why dont we discover the two minutes at the green l ight
solution? And why dont we implement it? Te intuition was growing
that answering those last two questions would open new perspectives
on corporate innovation.
But lets take a step back. Why does corporate lie resemble a traffic
jam? Since most mana gers cl aim they have a rational approach to
decision making, rushing and bumping should never be managerialbehaviours. Tose managers argue they live by the CAD decision
model. In other words, they collect inormation,analyseit and decidebased
upon it. Why dont they always get what they want then? Why do they
sometimes lose market share and get fired? Why, like drivers entering a
busy crossroads, are they surprised by the consequences o their own actions?
Simply because, ar rom resembling the CAD model, the decision-
making model used by managers is much closer to IJR ignoring/
judging /reacting. Am I exaggerating? Car drivers ignorehow to get out
o the traffic jam and tension grows. At some point when the light
turns green and emotions are at a peak theyjudgethat now its theirturn and they reactby rushing into the bottleneck.
Exactly the same thing happens to managers. All managers ignorethe
deep, systemic causes o complex business situations, as well as the real
consequences o the solutions that come to their mind,judgethat they
have the best solution and reactwith decisions that are limited by
their preconceived judgements. Underneath the CAD mountain lies
the IJR iceberg (Diagram 1, right).
IJR is consubstantial to our limited rationality. And theres something
good about that. However imperect our judgements may be, they are
useul: they stop the analysis so that immediate action becomes possible.In the short term, IJR makes CAD easier. But what happens in the longer
term? I would suggest that IJR sequences make innovation more difficult.
Lets take a real-lie example. A manager comes to his or her CEO
with a pl an to launch a revolut ionar y environmen t-riend ly packaging
material based on popcorn. Te manager is a creative and charming
person though with a reputation o being a little bit o a dreamer.
Tink o the CEOs situation. He ignoresthe business potential o the
idea and lacks the time to investigate it. But he still has tojudgewhether
he will allocate a development budget. Isnt it tempting or him to
judgethat such a naive manager would never be able to come up witha marketable innovation and to reactby stopping the project ? See how
easily one single IJR sequence can kill an innovation opportunity.
I IJR sequences can ultimately kill innovation, how does the chemistry
o ignorance, judgments and reactions interact with innovation
opportunities over time? It all depends on the type o IJR sequence we are
dealing with. Tere are at least two reasons why we, as managers, do not
reach the results we have been dreaming o. Te first reason is our limited
rationality: we dont have the knowledge to do what we should do to get
what we want. Lets call it aKnowledge Gap, the gap between our actual
behaviour and the behaviour that would have better served our stated
objectives but which our limited rationality prevents us rom adopting.
Knowledge Gaps
Why do Knowledge Gaps matter in our dail y lives? Tink o the
crossroads again. Te drivers dont know the two minutes at the greenlight solution but they want to get through as quickly as possible.
Tey behave in a way that makes the jam worse and d iminishes their
chances o reaching their objectives.
Why do Knowledge Gaps also matter or corporate innovatio n? Lets
take the example o the Innovation Division o a large service group
that decided to build centralised unctional directions to reduce costs.
Te management ignoredthe act that the combination o strong
central support unctions w ith many transversal innovation projects
would create a ver y complex co-ordinati on process. Teyjudgedthat
these centralised support unctions should be implemented to savecosts, and they reactedby implementing a ver y slow and bureaucratic
system. Because the management lacked a number o organisational
behaviour skills, they became trapped in a Knowledge Gap
that diminished the innovation potential o their organisation.
Knowledge Gaps are a consequence o IJR. We ignoreall the possible
solutions to our problem as well a s the way to determine the best one.
But we must stilljudgeat some point that our solution is the best and
we react based on this judgment. Since our rati onalit y is structurall y
limited, Knowledge Gaps are unavoidable. Tereore they are present
in all organisations, including the best-perorming ones. Knowledge
Gaps are involuntary and they can be reduced by raising the education
level o managers.
Relationship Gaps
Tere is also another reason why we ofen do not reach the new
situation we have been aiming or: power games. Because o them
we think we dont have the reedom to do w hat we shoul d do to get
what we w ant to get. Lets call it aRelat ionship Gap, the gap between
the behaviour finally chosen and the behaviour identified in the first
instance that we think would have better served our initial objectives
but that some power games prevented us rom implementing.
Our dayto-day lives are ull o Relationship Gaps. Tink o the crossroads
Why does corporate liferesemble a trafc jam? Sincemost managers claim theyhave a rational approachto decision making, rushingand bumping should neverbe managerial behaviours
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again. Imagine that you are an educated driver, ully aware o t he two minutes at
the green light solut ion. Would you implement it? I you stop at the green lig ht,
cars behind you may start honking their horns. Do you think t hat one o those
drivers will be so impatient that he will overtake you and take your place in the queue?
Should you really wait at the green light i others overtake you? Your idea o ot her
peoples reactions might create a Relationship Gap and prevent you rom implementing
an innovative solution.
How do Relationship Gaps also hinder corporate innovation? Lets take the example omanagers o large bureaucratic organisations that are given the objective o rejuvenating
their businesses but dont have the resources to do so bec ause they also h ave to
simultaneously clean up the existing mess.
Why is it so difficult or the management o l arge bu reaucrati c organisations to
discontinue non-perorming offerings? Because they may ignorewhether key people
within and ou tside the organisat ion would supp ort the discontinuation, mayjudge
that the politi cal risks o a discontinuation are too high and may reactby delaying
innovative reorms.
Like Knowledge Gaps, Relationship Gaps also come rom IJR. As decision makers we
ignoreall the people potentially impacted by our actions as well as their likely reactions.We must stilljudgeat some point that since those people are like thatit is likely that they
will We then react based on this preconceived judgment. Since human behaviours are
largely unpredictable, Relationship Gaps are present everywhere in our organisations, again
including the best-perorming ones. One way to diminish them is to encourage a trust
culture that makes it easier or people to share their objectives.
As evidenced by the traffic jam example, Knowledge Gaps prevent us rom imagining
innovative solutions and Relationship Gaps prevent us rom implementing them.
Knowledge Gaps can also lead to the creation o Relationship Gaps. I dont know what
my colleague was doing in t he office o my boss but he is the kind o person that was
surely spoiling my lie. Te reverse is also true. Relationship Gaps (Why is this person
smiling? I cant trust her.) can lead to the creation o Knowledg e Gaps (I decide to
keep all the inormation or mysel.) In this example, a lady will be missing a key piece
o inormation to solve a critical issue and a learning opportunity will b e wasted.
Innovation roller coaster
In short, managers ride the innovation process like a roller coaster, through the ups
and downs o Knowledge and Relationship Gaps (Diagram 2, lef).
Knowledge and Relationship Gaps interere with corp orate innovation processes.
Since managers are requently unaware o them, I call th em glass walls. Tey are based
upon the same DNA structure, described here as IJRs. IJRs helps organisations adapt
in the short term. But in the long term, the chain reactions o I JR-based Knowledge
and Relationship Gaps can trap organisations into vicious circles that prevent them
rom urther innovating.
On a practical level, innovation development programmes can help. Tese programmes
should have a knowledge and also a relationship content. ruly helping organisations
oster innovation means helping individuals better understand how they ignore, judge
and react.
Te answer is probably specific to each individual and contingent upon the set o
circumstances he or she is acing. It is even possible that this might ol low patterns.
Each o us would thereore be inclined to ignore, judge and react according to precise
and recurrent patterns that we would reproduce in similar relationships. Understanding
those should be crucial or developing the innovation potential o companies.
INNOVATION ROLLERCOAST
JudgingMy idea is the best... !
JudgingWith these kind ofpeople, I should... !
IgnoringThe consequence
of the solutionenvisaged
Reacting IgnoringOther peoples
reactions
Reacting
UNCERTAINTY KNOWLEDGE
GAP
RELATIONSHIP
GAP
IJR ICEBERG
Analysing information
Collectinginformation
Ignoring
Judging
Deciding
Reacting
Above:
Diagram 1 IJR Iceberg (G4 2007)
Below:
Diagram 2 Knowledge and Relationship Gaps (G4 2007)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Bruno Chaintron is Director of International Development,La Poste International Mail Activities. This article summarisesimportant points developed in his book Coaching pour changeravec plaisir (Eyrolles publishing, 2007).
Email: [email protected]
Diagram 1
Diagram 2
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Business schools have always competed with industry to
attract talent to their PhD programmes. In areas such as
accounting and nance, industry often won. In traditional
areas, such as economics, the reverse was true.
However, since the late 1990s industr y has been extremely successul
in diverting talent rom business schools in all areas. Tis lack o abil ity
to compete with industry has become so acute recently that a good
number o American business schools have had to terminate their PhD
programmes. Hence the raison dtrein August 2002 or the landmark
report,Manageme nt Educat ion at R isk, by AACSB Internationals
Management Education ask Force (MEF), which identified and
prioritised the most pressing issues acing management education.
Various reasons have been advanced to expl ain why there is a shortage
o PhD candidates knocking on business school doors: PhD programmestake too long (three to five years); are not flexible (ull-time attendance
DENIz SArALARGUES THAT THE INTRODUCTION OR ExPANSION OF DOCTORALPROGRAMMES FOR ExECUTIVES AND USING TECHNOLOGY-ENHANCEDE-LEARNING MODELS TO REDUCE THEIR COST IS ONE WAY BUSINESSSCHOOLS CAN INCREASE THE NUMBERS OF ExECUTIVE PARTICIPANTS
Using technologyto lure eecutivesback to businessschools
The attempt to converttraditionally educatedprofessors in Europe (and inAmerica) into business schoolteachers has largely failed
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is required, which does not permit a candidate to work); are too costly
when the opportunit y cost to the candidate (working in in dustr y afer
an MBA degree) is taken into consideration; are too theoretical and
thus do not address the current needs o business; and still require
that knowledge is transerred rom mentor to candidate in a lowstudent-mentor ratio environment, which is a very costly process
or universities.
Te real culprit is most likely a combination o all these actors.
However, the conclusion is uniorm. Te supply o PhD candidates
has been reduced to critically low level s and business schools have to
find alternatives to increase inflows into their doctoral programmes.
What alternatives do business schools have?
Faced with high global demand rom business or well-trained managerial
talent, business schools enthusiastically increased the size o their
MBA programmes. Numerous traditional universities in Europe
joined in and energeticall y tried to convert their intern ational
economics /trade departments into business schools. Teir aculties
had already realised how ast the demand or non-business
programmes w as eroding.
Tis phenomenon resulted in a prolieration o MBA programmes
around the world, most significantly in America and Western Europe.
Intense competition ollowed. oday, even the highest-ranked business
schools have to spend heavily to recruit MBA students. Tey have had
to go ar afield and expand their offer across continents.
Recently, or example, INSEAD orged a strategic alliance in Saudi
Arabia and the London Business School completed a similar deal in
the United Arab Emirates.
IMD, based in Lausanne, Switzerland, the other school in the top three
in Europe, has so ar appeared to resist this temptation. Tis is largely
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due to IMD President (Dean) Peter Loranges strategic model [see page 8 or an
interview with Lorange], which requires that i a candidate wants to earn an IMD
MBA, he or she must spend a year ull-time in Lausanne. IMDs Executive MBA
programme has a similar requirement, that is, all candidates must be ready to spend
weeks at a time in Lausanne over two years. How many business school s can affordIMDs strategy?
Te attempt to convert traditionally educated proessors in Europe (and in America)
into business school teachers has largely ailed. I know a number o European state
universities that ailed to attract the minimum required enrolments to their MBA
programs in 2006.
I business schools cant attract new talent in sufficient numbers to their PhD
programmes and are also unable to retrain their traditional aculty to become
effective teachers in MBA or PhD programmes, what alternatives do they have?
In the rest o this article I will illustrate how two o the alternatives listed by the
Doctoral Faculty Commission report can be used and brought to bear jointly
to raise the limited supply o doctoral candidates in business schools. In response
toManageme nt Educat ion at R isk AACSB created the Doctoral Faculty Commission
(DFC), which came up with a series o recommendations that could alleviate the
shortage o business doctorates.
Introduction or expansion of doctoral programs for executives
Can business schools regain the talent they earlier lost to industry and encourage them
to undertake doctoral studies? Te response is affirmative provided that the doctoral
programme is based on applied research, which allows the executive to effectively apply
the experience and talent he or she has accumulated over the years; is flexible, that is, the
programme can be taken on a part-time basis; is industry relevant so that the doctoralcandidate can apply the results o his or her newly acquired research and knowledge
readily; and is able to motivate the doctoral graduate to teach in business schools on a
part-time basis afer the completiono the programme.
Tierry Grange, Director General o Grenoble Ecole de Management (GEM)
in France, once described this phenomenon as a process or knowledge/talent
recycling. GEM is among a good number o business schools and universities
that offer a Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA) degree programme.
Tere is a potential shortcoming o this model, however. I the DBA candidates are
not provided with an integrated learning system (ILS) through which they can stay
in constant contact not only with each other but w ith their mentors and also learn byinteracting with the e-learning system imbedded in the ILS, then a DBA programme
may lose a good number o its candi dates. It is important to keep in ocus that the
business executive has been trained and motivated to work towards measurable, time-
based, continuous and compensated objectives. Tey wi ll thereore become high-
maintenance students.
I the DBA programme administrators and mentors are not equipped to respond to
the executives individual needs and requirements, and this is ver y costly indeed, then
they must invest in an ILS that will respond to the executives needs or training in
academic research methodology and interactive learning. Intermittently scheduled
our- to five-day anchoring workshops, which bring all o the DBA candidates andmentors together, will complete the DBA training process.
The supply of PhD
candidates has beenreduced to criticallylow levels and businessschools have to ndalternatives to increaseinows into theirdoctoral programmes
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Characteristics of an integrated learning system
Te ILS environment combines the ollowing eatures:
Fully interactive web-based courses
Face-to-ace anchoring workshops with real-lie cases, examples and studies
Virtual classroom sessions bringing participants together with mentors
Evaluation tests designed to measure the effectiveness o learning
Simulations modelled to reflect real-lie applications o the knowledge gained
Project work allowing participants to put theory into practice
Access to research databases and inormation to enable the participants
to conduct research
Mentor support or all o the aspects listed above
Designing and successully operating an ILS requires accumulated know-howand specialised talent. An ILS, thereore, is not a panacea. However, it has been
demonstrated to be a highly effective approach, which in the long run costs less
than traditional doctorate and EMBA programmes to operate.
Content quality and delivery of an ILS
How much time and effort will it take a business school to develop an ILS o its own?
Unortunately, the answer to this question is not ver y encouraging because the design,
testing, development, constant maintenance and upgrading o an ILS make it a
complex process to manage. Many e-learning products have cra shed and burned
because their developers based them mostly on technology rather than teaching
and learning. Learning how to design an ILS is a long and costly process.Tere are nevertheless a handul o organisations that have already mastered ILS.
Some are also certified by the EFM D CEL (teChnology Enhanced Learning)
accreditation system and make excellent candidates or orming strategic alliances.
Responsibilities can then be shared between the parties.
For example, a local/regional university can concentrate on recruiting DBA or
EMBA candidates, designing anchoring workshops so that candidates need not
travel long distances, and training its own aculty to become DBA or EMBA mentors
within the ILS. Te institution that ow ns the IL S (wit h EFMD CEL status) appl ies
it towards the training/learning objectives o DBA or EMBA candidates.
During its Annual Meeting in Brussels in June 2007, EFMD awarded CELaccreditation to Kavrakoglu Management Institutes (KMI) Executive MBA
(EMBA) programme (w ww.kavrakoglu.com).
Ibrahim Kavrakoglu, KMIs director, earlier said that it took them several million
dollars o investment and nearly ten years to develop and veriy their ILS. He was
convinced years ago that there would be a very strong place or virtual learning
in the 21st century. I am convinced today.
Designing andsuccessfully operatingan ILS requiresaccumulated know-howand specialised talent
ABOUT THE AUTHOr
Deniz Saral, PhD, is Chairman and Professor, Business and Management Programs,School of Business and Technology, Webster University, Geneva
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ut glbllyTHE EFMD PROGRAMME ACCREDITATION SYSTEM(EPAS) HAS LAUNCHED AN AMBITIOUS SCALE UPINITIATIVE. ULrICH HOMMEL OUTLINES THE BENEFITS
Successfully marketing a national premium
academic programme increasingly depends
on achieving international recognitionby employers, prospective students and
peer institutions. Prospective students
are particularly interested in programmes
that can act as a door-opener to promising
career paths in multinational companies.
They are specically looking for
multicultural learning environments
with well-established international
corporate links as well as
substantial alumni networking.
Te EFMD Programme
Accreditation System (EPAS)
serves as a partner to accredit
and continuously improve the
international reach o EFMD
members programme offerings.
Following two successul pilot
phases in 2006, EFMD uality
Services is currently embarking
on an ambitious Scale Up initiative
to expand the portolio o accreditedprogrammes in order to add brand
value to accredited programmes in its key
business school markets.
EPAS accreditation provides value in five
distinct areas:
by ensuring a quality first approach
by increasing brand recognition by key stakeholder
groups o accredited programmes,
by acting as a proo o concept or successul
internationalisation
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by providing network value or accredited programmes (EPAS accreditation strengthens
the partnership between the member institution and EFMD and an increasing number
o regular network events - such as the EPAS meeting at the 2007 Annual Conerence oster inter-institutional learning and will hopeull y provide the basis or the
development o co-operative arrangements between EPAS-accredited programmes.)
by possibly serving as a substitute or mandatory national accreditation (EFMD uality
Services is initiating talks with accreditation authorities with the objective o obtaining
national recognition. Any such effort, however, is conditional on a fit o national
accreditation standards with EFMDs general philosophy o developing a relationship
o mutual trust rather than providing a detailed public rating o a programme.)
However, the most immediate benefit o EPAS accreditation is also the one most
ofen overlooked by programme and possibly even business school management.
EPAS is based on a unique value model embedded in its Standards and Criteria that enorces
a quality first approach at all levels without inringing on an institutions prerogative to
differentiate itsel rom competitors (and also any implicit market standards). Te overall
programme assessment is put into the context o the institutional as well as the national
and international environments. A programme is evaluated on the basis o its design, delivery
and outcomes and, in addition, by appraising the supporting quality assurance processes. Te
assessment philosophy is designed to add value to a school and not to take an auditing approach.
Academic programmes ofen involve a lot o pragmatism. Programme officials may
ocus too much on marketing issues and may apply myopic short-cuts when it comes
to the undamentals o qualit y management, ofen driven by the need to respond
quickly to market dynamics in the presence o tight budget constraints.
EPAS, however, puts these qualit y issues at the oreront and thereby enorces principles
that ensure the creation o long-term value or the organisation as a whole. It can
ultimately create a halo effect or the entire institution and can thereore act as a
catalyst or change, enabling a business school to reach a state o EUIS readiness
much more quickly than otherwise.
In this context, organisational learning takes place in two stages:
preparing the sel-assessment report during the accreditation phase
dealing with specific weaknesses identified by the peer review team afer having
completed the initial accreditation.
EPAS is basedon a unique valuemodel embeddedin its Standards andCriteria that enforcesa quality rst
approach at all levels
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Previous experience has shown that inadequate prioritisation o
quality management is identified by characteristic shortcomings
related to the EPAS value model. Some examples are:
a disconnect between programme management and aculty,
implying that the aculty does not consider itsel to be the natural
owner o a programme and will thereore ail to devote adequate
creative resources to its uture development
irregular internal programme review processes without explicit
standards and objectives, implying a potentially dangerous autonomy
or the programme directorate
insufficient integration o the programme content across courses
and modules, making it di fficult or students to transorm learning
outcomes into general problem-solving skills
lack o rigor in programme assessment due to an overemphasis
o the student as customer perspective, inhibiting the emergence
o a culture o perormance excellence
Previous experience has also shown that acceptable levels and orms ointernationalisation may vary widely depending on the institutions markets.
For example, a Belgium-based programme with strong corporate links
to international consultancy firms and investment banks has to adopt
a global approach. By contrast, a programme operated out o Russia
with non-financial companies a s the key corporate stakeholders would
necessarily use di fferent geographical reerence points and would also
need to cope with the act that the home country already represents
a culturally diverse melting pot.
Similar flexibility is applied when determining the case-specific EPAS
standards regarding aculty qualification and academic research. Whatmatters, first o al l, is the impact o the acultys research activities on
programme content. Second, standards applied in the context o research
are a unction o the type o degree to be awarded. It is hardly conceivable
to successully run a specialised MSc programme without almost all aculty
members holding a doctoral degree and being actively involved in research.
By contrast, BA programmes may rely more heavily on ull-time teachers
without an explicit research ocus and the aculty composition o an MBA
programme will probably be more tilted towards corporate practitioners.
While EPAS is primaril y targeted at Bologna-t ype degree
programmes, it is also open to schools still in the process o transitioning
into the new system. So ar only seasoned stand-alone programmesbelow the doctoral level have been accredited within EPAS. But joint
programmes, new programmes rom well-respected institutions as
well a s doctora l programmes may become eligible within the short
to med ium term. ualit y S erv ices is currently also undertaking various
efforts to enlarge EPAS exposure in non-business school markets such as
public management, healthcare management or financial engineering.
Accredited programmes bear witness to the act that EPAS has already helped
schools to attain top positions in national rankings. Similarly to EUIS,
the reputational potential will only be ully realised once the EPAS portolio
has crossed a critical threshold. Te Scale Up initiative aims at achievingthis objective within the coming 18 months.
ABOUT THE AUTHOr
Ulrich Hommel is Associate Director, EFMD Quality ServicesFuthe infomation:Please contact Emma Keating [email protected]
While EPAS is primarilytargeted at Bologna-typedegree programmes, it isalso open to schools still inthe process of transitioninginto the new system
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Institutions of higher learning tend to devotemore attention to the production side of theiractivity scientic work and educationalprogrammes rather than to their ownmarkets. This is understandable as they areconcerned with long-term issues that shouldnot be inuenced too much by contetualhazards. In the case of business schools
in particular, this might have two negativeeffects that could impair their relevance,if not addressed properly.
First, business schools tend to live incomfortable isolation from the real worldand miss opportunities to learn fromcompanies and the business world. Second,they tend to protect with jealousy theiridiosyncrasies and only undertake marginalcooperation with partner institutions.
I believe that accreditation procedures area powerful lever to help institutions clarifytheirs missions and improve their processes
but also to relate more efciently totheir environment and learn from it.
ESSCA has gained a lot from its EPASaccreditation process. Its focused approachhas allowed an in-depth analysis of itsGrande Ecoleprogramme and has served asa powerful lever for innovation and progress.EPAS has also provided us with an invaluableopportunity to evaluate our programmeagainst international best practices bothfrom the corporate and the academic world.In addition EPAS will be a powerful referencefor our graduates on the world job market.
Michel Pot
Director general
ESSCA
Grand Ecole programme
EPAS accreditation is uniquely useful as theonly international programme accreditationfor management courses other than MBAs.Although we have since gone on to EQUISaccreditation, it is especially useful to provideinternational recognition for programmesoffered by organisations for which institutionalbusiness school accreditation is not, or not
yet, appropriate.
One of the initial reasons we soughtaccreditation was for marketing purposesand we did eperience a substantialincrease in student numbers in the yearfollowing accreditation, although some ofthat increase was also a result of a numberof other initiatives. However, it quicklybecame obvious during the accreditationprocess that the process itself was likelyto be even more valuable than the award.The process of self-evaluation, the in-depthreview by the visiting panel and the nalreport provided a uniquely useful strategicreview of the programme, its market position,the contribution it makes to the school andits delivery.
Although we only submitted one programmefor evaluation, the impact on the schoolhas been much broader as the qualitycontrol and strategic assessment practicesinherent in the EPAS process have becomemore broadly accepted within the faculty.
Prof W Rees, Director, Universiteit van
Amsterdam Business Schoo l
Amsterdam University Business School,
Master in International Finance programme
EPAS has been a major incentive to furtherdevelop MIRBIS international culture. Self-assessment was etremely important for ourSchools team as it was an opportunity tobenchmark what we are doing against EPASstandards. In the whole EPAS process, weunderstoo