A learning alliance between business and business schools: executive education as a platform for partnership

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Business and business schools, at least in the United States, have tended to maintain an arm's-length relationship. Recent evidence suggests that this arm's-length model may have expanded the gulf between business and business schools, making them increasingly irrelevant to one another. This article argues for a new kind of executive education program that can provide the platform for building a very different partnership between business and business schools. Instead of viewing research and teaching as independent or sequentially linked activities, such programs can make them simultaneous outputs from a shared learning experience. Grounded in the specific case of one such partnership between Digital Equipment Corporation and INSEAD, such learning alliances can be just as useful for broadening the perspectives of business school faculty and for building new theory as they are for educating managers and for managing corporate change. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

Models, Education, Executives, Learning, Business and education, Industry and education, Teaching models

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Social capital and value creation: the role of intrafirm networks

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Using data collected from multiple respondents in all the business units of a large multinational electronics company, we examined the relationships both among the structural, relational, and cognitive dimensions of social capital and between those dimensions and the patterns of resource exchange and product innovation within the company. Social interaction, a manifestation of the structural dimension of social capital, and trust, a manifestation of its relational dimension, were significantly related to the extent of interunit resource exchange, which in turn had a significant effect on product innovation. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

Other Electrical Equipment and Component Manufacturing, Electronics, Electronic Components and Accessories, Research, Infrastructure (Economics), Electronics industry, Organizational effectiveness, New products, Product introduction, Resource allocation, Value (Economics)

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The pursuit of relevance in management education

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The significance of experiential knowledge and academic knowledge usage in business schools is presented.

Forecasts, trends, outlooks, Management dynamics, California, Business and Secretarial Schools, Business & Secretarial Schools, Forecasts and trends, Curricula, Market trend/market analysis, Company business management, Experiential learning, Business education

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