third extract
In the third extract the deans answered questions from journalists.
Participating are:
- Dipak Jain, dean of the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
- Frank Brown, dean of Insead
- Edward Snyder, dean of the Chicago Graduate School of Business
- Santiago Iniguez, dean of IE Business School
- Glenn Hubbard, dean of Columbia Business School
- Jordi Canals, dean of Iese Business School
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fourth extract
In the fourth extract the deans answered more journalists’ questions.
Participating are:
- Frank Brown, dean of Insead
- Robert Joss, dean of the Stanford Graduate School of Business
- Bernard Ramanantsoa, dean of HEC Paris
- Peter Lorange, president of IMD
- Arnoud De Meyer, director of the Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge
- Edward Snyder, dean of the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business
- Santiago Iniguez, dean of IE Business School
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"According to the dean of Spain’s Instituto de Empresas, Santiago Iniguez de Onzono, there are very few management professors that combine all the skills that business schools are after. In particular, too many are only interested in their research and, in his words, “despise” the teaching side. While “gurus” may give a school prestige, they are of little practical use to students if they are half-hearted in the classroom. Mr Iniguez de Onzono’s solution to is to search for potential new professors not just in the PhD programmes of business schools, but also in related disciplines, such as sociology, communications and psychology. Schools then need to be prepared to spend resources to equip these scholars with the classroom skills needed to impart their knowledge."...