Strategic leadership in the business school : keeping one step ahead / / Fernando Fragueiro and Howard Thomas [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910460140103321
• Autore: Fragueiro Fernando
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2011
• ISBN: 1-107-21283-9; 1-139-06302-2; 1-283-11229-9; 1-139-07524-1; 9786613112293; 1-139-08206-X; 1-139-07750-3; 1-139-07979-4; 0-511-92108-X; 1-139-06947-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiv, 269 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 650.071/173
• Soggetti: Business schools - United States - Management; Management - United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Machine generated contents note: List of figures; List of tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: global financial crisis: future challenges for strategic leadership, Deans and business schools; 2. The business school landscape: trends and dilemmas; 3. Business schools as professional organisations (professional service firms); 4. The leadership process in business schools; 5. Strategic leadership in practice: leading the strategic process in three top business schools; 6. Strategic leadership in practice: the role of the Dean; 7. Learning from the trenches: personal reflections on Deanship; Bibliography; Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 their invaluable experience as Deans of highly successful business schools, they present a series of case studies to show how leaders of five leading business schools (IMD, LBS, INSEAD, IAE and Warwick) have built effective strategies in the context of internal and external political pressures.