SSRN Home Search and Download Papers Browse Abstract and Paper Submission Subscribe to Networks View Briefcase Top Papers Top Authors Top Institutions

 

Abstract

 
 

References (16)

Beta

 
 

Citations (4)

Beta

 


 


Download | Share | Email | Add to Briefcase | Buy Hard Copy

What's Really Wrong with U.S. Business Schools?

Harry DeAngelo
University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business - Finance and Business Economics Department

Linda DeAngelo
University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business - Finance and Business Economics Department

Jerold L. Zimmerman
University of Rochester - Simon School


July 2005


Abstract:     
U.S. business schools are locked in a dysfunctional competition for media rankings that diverts resources from long-term knowledge creation, which earned them global pre-eminence, into short-term strategies aimed at improving their rankings. MBA curricula are distorted by quick fix, look good packaging changes designed to influence rankings criteria, at the expense of giving students a rigorous, conceptual framework that will serve them well over their entire careers. Research, undergraduate education, and Ph.D. programs suffer as faculty time is diverted to almost continuous MBA curriculum changes, strategic planning exercises, and public relations efforts. Unless they wake up to the dangers of dysfunctional rankings competition, U.S. business schools are destined to lose their dominant global position and become a classic case study of how myopic decision-making begets institutional mediocrity.

Keywords: Business school rankings, MBA programs

JEL Classifications: M10, A20

Working Paper Series

Date posted: August 01, 2005 ; Last revised: January 23, 2006

Suggested Citation

DeAngelo, Harry, DeAngelo, Linda and Zimmerman, Jerold L., What's Really Wrong with U.S. Business Schools? (July 2005). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=766404


Export to: Export Citation What's this?

Contact Information

Harry DeAngelo (Contact Author)
University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business - Finance and Business Economics Department ( email )
Marshall School of Business
Los Angeles, CA 90089
United States
213-740-6541 (Phone)
213-740-6650 (Fax)
Linda DeAngelo
University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business - Finance and Business Economics Department ( email )
Marshall School of Business
Los Angeles, CA 90089
United States
213-740-3868 (Phone)
213-740-6650 (Fax)
Jerold L. Zimmerman
University of Rochester - Simon School ( email )
Carol Simon Hall 3-160D
Rochester, NY 14627
United States
585-275-3397 (Phone)
585-442-6323 (Fax)
Feedback to SSRN (Beta)


Paper statistics
Abstract Views: 15,078
Downloads: 4,934
Download Rank: 252
References: 16
Citations: 4

© 2009 Social Science Electronic Publishing, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Terms of Use  Privacy Policy
This page was served by apollo4 in 0.109 seconds.