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Africa: Why It's Time for Business Schools to Radically Rethink the MBA

Published: 8 March 2016

Employers love business school graduates. That's not just a wild claim: 96% of employers globally polled by the Graduate Management Admission Council in January 2016 said that hiring such graduates creates value for their companies.

But that most-sought-after of business qualifications, the Master of Business Administration (MBA), is not above criticism. It has been accused by some of not meeting the needs of a changing market.

In this tough economic and political climate it's important to question whether business schools should be doing something differently.

But things have changed. In 2001 ±«ÓãÖ±²¥ professor Henry Mintzberg famously said that MBA programs were labouring under irrelevant curricula.

Read full article: , 6 March, 2016

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