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Strategic Leadership in the Business School: Keeping One Step Ahead
Fernando Fragueiro
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Description for Strategic Leadership in the Business School: Keeping One Step Ahead
hardcover. Shows how Deans of business schools can build effective strategies and better execute their leadership role. Num Pages: 284 pages, 25 b/w illus. 19 tables. BIC Classification: JNK; KJC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 162 x 22. Weight in Grams: 592.
Business schools have come under fire in recent years with criticisms centring on their academic rigour and the relevance of business education to the 'real' world of management. Alongside this ongoing debate, increasing international competition and media rankings have led to a fierce struggle between business schools for positioning and differentiation. These are among the challenges that are faced by the Dean of the modern-day business school. In this book, Fernando Fragueiro and Howard Thomas show how Deans of business schools can meet such challenges in terms of strategic direction setting and the execution of their leadership role. Drawing on ... Read more
Business schools have come under fire in recent years with criticisms centring on their academic rigour and the relevance of business education to the 'real' world of management. Alongside this ongoing debate, increasing international competition and media rankings have led to a fierce struggle between business schools for positioning and differentiation. These are among the challenges that are faced by the Dean of the modern-day business school. In this book, Fernando Fragueiro and Howard Thomas show how Deans of business schools can meet such challenges in terms of strategic direction setting and the execution of their leadership role. Drawing on ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
284
Condition
New
Number of Pages
284
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521116121
SKU
V9780521116121
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Ref
99-16
About Fernando Fragueiro
Fernando Fragueiro is Professor of the Organizational Behavior Academic Area and Director of the CEDI Research Center at IAE Business School in Buenos Aires. He has previously served as Dean of the IAE Business School (1995–2008) and as Vice President of Austral University (1995–2007). Howard Thomas is Dean and Chair in Strategic Management at the Lee Kong Chian School of ... Read more
Reviews for Strategic Leadership in the Business School: Keeping One Step Ahead
'This book emphasizes how business schools might be better led! The various examples are particularly helpful. All in all, a must for academic leaders, including those who want to prepare themselves for such roles.' Peter Lorange, President, Lorange Institute of Business 'Business schools are facing unprecedented change and new challenges. More than ever, schools need a sense of mission that ... Read more