The MBA is probably the hottest ticket among the current university graduate degree offerings--every year, more than 120,000 students enroll in MBA programs in the United States, and the estimates in Europe do not lag far behind. In addition, job prospects have never looked better for business school graduates; corporations are hiring more business school graduates every year, and compensating them more handsomely. The Future of the MBA provides a sorely needed detailed and systematic review of the major contemporary debates on management education. At the same time, it makes a striking new proposal that will certainly have an impact in business schools: that managers need to develop a series of qualitative tacit skills which could be appropriately developed by integrative curricula brought from different disciplines, including sociology, philosophy, and other social sciences. Moldoveanu and Martin, both involved in the greatly respected integrative business education program at the Rotheman School of Management, provide a guide on how to design a reliable integrated program for management students. One of the main assets of the book is that it relies not just on speculative thinking, but on real life experience, and that it also includes case studies that will appeal to practicing managers. As an authoritative reference on MBA education, it will appeal to faculty and staff of business schools, as well as students in related fields like education and public policy.

The Future of the MBA: Designing the Thinker of the Future

Business & Money

Martin, Roger L.

Moldoveanu, Mihnea C.

Management & Leadership

Oxford University Press

Epinets: The Epistemic Structure and Dynamics of Social Networks

Epinets presents a new way to think about social networks, which focuses on the knowledge that underlies our social interactions. Guiding readers through the web of beliefs that networked individuals have about each other and probing into what others think, this book illuminates the deeper character and influence of relationships among social network participants. Drawing on artificial intelligence, the philosophy of language, and epistemic game theory, Moldoveanu and Baum formulate a lexicon and array of conceptual tools that enable readers to explain, predict, and shape the fabric and behavior of social networks. With an innovative and strategically-minded look at the assumptions that enable and clog our networks, this book lays the groundwork for a leap forward in our understanding of human relations.

Baum, Joel A.C.

Human Resources

Stanford Business Books

Explains how to refine predictive skills, make decisions, measure risk, understand conflict, and improve human interactions

Do Lunch or Be Lunch: The Power of Predictability in Creating Your Future

Cruikshank, Jeffrey L.

Stevenson, Howard H.

Harvard Business Review Press

Review\n"What's the best way to develop your best people? Moldoveanu and Narayandas answer this essential leadership question, at a moment in time when our competitiveness―if not our survival―depends on our leaders' ability to learn. After reading this rigorous, engaging book, my key takeaway is 'don't just trust your instincts." -- Frances Frei, UPS Professor of Service Management ― Harvard Business School\n"This book is as timely, especially after COVID-19, as it is precise in describing a pressing problem: the training and up-skilling of executives. The unprecedented changes that company executives will face in this new era, combined with the extraordinary developments in new digital affordances for training delivery, make this book essential for anyone who manages people." -- Sanjay Sarma, Professor and Vice President for Open Learning ― MIT\n"This important book provides academics and practitioners the vocabulary for understanding what new skill building systems and strategies are required to equip executives to compete in the digital age. Thoughtful and thorough, The Future of Executive Development will be your guide to the disruption of corporate learning, with respect to both means and ends." -- Martin Reeves, Managing Director and Senior Partner ― Boston Consulting Group\n"The Future of Executive Development gives us a clear and exciting roadmap to address one of the great management challenges of our time: reinventing the way leaders learn, so they can stay ahead of the curve." -- Matthew Breitfelder, Global Head of Human Capital ― Apollo Global Management\nExecutive development programs have entered a period of rapid transformation, driven by digital disruption and a widening gap between the skills that participants and their organizations demand and those provided by their executive programs. This work delves into the objective functions of the executive development space, analyzes the demand characteristics of the learners and the organizations that pay for the programs, and the ways in which business schools and other providers deliver (or not) on the promises they make regarding skill development and the continued value of learning to the organization. They show how a trio of disruptive forces (disintermediation, disaggregation and decoupling) which have figured prominently in industries disrupted by digitalization,are reshaping the structure of demand for executive development. The authors look at the future of executive development in the era of self-refining algorithms (aka machine learning) and wearable sensors and computers, and offer a compass for making the right choice for CEOs and CLOs who are guiding executive program design. Ultimately, they offer a guide for to optimize the learning production function for both skill acquisition and skill transfer – the two charges that the new skills economy has laid out for any educational enterprise.

The Future of Executive Development

Stanford University Press

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