Roundtable of CEIBS faculty

By Fei Lai  |   2008-6-18  |     NEWSPAPER EDITION

A THREE-HOUR deans' roundtable titled "The Future of Business Manage-ment Education in China and Around the World" was held at the China Europe International Business School Shanghai campus recently.

Hosted and moderated by Paul Danos, dean of the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, the graduate school of management founded in 1900, these roundtables are part of Tuck's sustained international outreach program.

The frank discussion featured five deans from CEIBS in Shanghai, the Institute Empress in Spain, Fudan Management School, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Business School.

"Globalization is changing business education just as surely as it has changed international business. We'd like to know how education is developing in the world and explore places that we want to learn about," Danos said.

"There is no government control on what education will become. No American model is going to be the majority model globally. It is necessary that new models are adapted. That's why I initiated the event."

At the roundtable, the deans discussed issues such as the long-term sourcing and training of faculty members within the context of a dwindling number of PhD graduates; how to best meet the needs of both students and students' employers; China's pressing demand for highly trained managers and future avenues of collaboration among the schools present.

Having previously been held in Germany, France and Brazil, this was the first time for the roundtable to be held in China. Globalization, which is influencing the curriculum and strategies of today's businesses, is always the focus of these meetings.

According to Danos, the limited supply of academic faculty, which results in a growing proportion of non-academic faculty, was a particularly hot issue at the roundtable this time.

The event ended with participants expressing a willingness to collaborate on areas of mutual interest and engage in further dialogue.