Ken Starkey is Professor of Management and Organisational Learning and Head of the Strategy Division at Nottingham University Business School. He is a former Chair of the British Academy of Management Research Committee and a fellow of the Sunningdale Institute of the National School of Government. He is the author of ten books, including How Organisations Learn (2004). Nick Tiratsoo is currently chair of a regeneration charity in East London. He was previously Visiting Research Fellow with the Business History Unit at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and Senior Research Fellow at Nottingham University Business School. He has published widely in the fields of political history, business history and planning history.

'Business schools play a key role in higher education and in the economic institutions that drive modern societies. Yet little systematic scholarship has been devoted to understanding and improving them. Starkey and Tiratsoo fill this gap admirably. They trace business schools' evolution globally; identify the diverse demands facing them today; describe their approaches to teaching and research; and provide reasonable prescriptions for their future success. This book is essential reading for all of us - administrators, faculty, students, and corporate leaders alike - who want (and need) business schools to thrive.' Thomas G. Cummings, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California

• List of tables; Acknowledgements; Prologue; 1. Introduction; 2. The development and diffusion of the business school; 3. Business schools in the era of hyper-competition: 'more 'business' and less 'school'; 4. Business school education; 5. Business school research; 6. Experiments and innovations; 7. Imaginary MBAs; 8. Business school futures: mission impossible?; Epilogue.

Ken Starkey is Professor of Management and Organisational Learning and Head of the Strategy Division at Nottingham University Business School. He is a former Chair of the British Academy of Management Research Committee and a fellow of the Sunningdale Institute of the National School of Government. He is the author of ten books, including How Organisations Learn (2004). Nick Tiratsoo is currently chair of a regeneration charity in East London. He was previously Visiting Research Fellow with the Business History Unit at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and Senior Research Fellow at Nottingham University Business School. He has published widely in the fields of political history, business history and planning history.

'Business schools play a key role in higher education and in the economic institutions that drive modern societies. Yet little systematic scholarship has been devoted to understanding and improving them. Starkey and Tiratsoo fill this gap admirably. They trace business schools' evolution globally; identify the diverse demands facing them today; describe their approaches to teaching and research; and provide reasonable prescriptions for their future success. This book is essential reading for all of us - administrators, faculty, students, and corporate leaders alike - who want (and need) business schools to thrive.' Thomas G. Cummings, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California

• List of tables; Acknowledgements; Prologue; 1. Introduction; 2. The development and diffusion of the business school; 3. Business schools in the era of hyper-competition: 'more 'business' and less 'school'; 4. Business school education; 5. Business school research; 6. Experiments and innovations; 7. Imaginary MBAs; 8. Business school futures: mission impossible?; Epilogue.

Ken Starkey is Professor of Management and Organisational Learning and Head of the Strategy Division at Nottingham University Business School. He is a former Chair of the British Academy of Management Research Committee and a fellow of the Sunningdale Institute of the National School of Government. He is the author of ten books, including How Organisations Learn (2004). Nick Tiratsoo is currently chair of a regeneration charity in East London. He was previously Visiting Research Fellow with the Business History Unit at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and Senior Research Fellow at Nottingham University Business School. He has published widely in the fields of political history, business history and planning history.

'Business schools play a key role in higher education and in the economic institutions that drive modern societies. Yet little systematic scholarship has been devoted to understanding and improving them. Starkey and Tiratsoo fill this gap admirably. They trace business schools' evolution globally; identify the diverse demands facing them today; describe their approaches to teaching and research; and provide reasonable prescriptions for their future success. This book is essential reading for all of us - administrators, faculty, students, and corporate leaders alike - who want (and need) business schools to thrive.' Thomas G. Cummings, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California

• List of tables; Acknowledgements; Prologue; 1. Introduction; 2. The development and diffusion of the business school; 3. Business schools in the era of hyper-competition: 'more 'business' and less 'school'; 4. Business school education; 5. Business school research; 6. Experiments and innovations; 7. Imaginary MBAs; 8. Business school futures: mission impossible?; Epilogue.