晨讀英語美文60篇29 MBA

[00:00.00]MBA [00:04.04]The Masters of Business Administration (MBA), [00:11.67]the best-known business school label, [00:13.97]is an introduction to general management. [00:16.92]The traditional MBA, Harvard style, [00:19.98]has remained largely unaltered since the 1950s, [00:23.92]and seeks to provide at thorough knowledge of business functions through the casestudy— [00:30.04]a feature incidentally borrowed from law school. [00:33.22]In a similar fashion to law school, [00:36.17]the graduate management programs train students to think in a particular way, [00:41.42]ultimately teaching future business leaders how to analyze problems quickly [00:46.77]and come up with concise solutions. [00:49.17]However, business comprises more than merely manipulating numbers [00:54.55]or sourcing rational answers to problems. [00:57.29]Today, both companies and schools are increasingly aware that business is a human activity; [01:03.85]it is ultimately by and about people. [01:07.24]John Quelch is a business school insider [01:10.72]who detects the limitations of the traditional syllabus. [01:14.44]According to Quelch, [01:16.41]leadership is an area that schools have not fully addressed. [01:20.34]“The basic technical training managers need is more widespread. [01:25.27]But leadership skills are in short supply. [01:28.00]This could become a major constraint on the speed with which multinational companies can expand,”he says. [01:35.58]Leadership is notoriously hard to teach, [01:38.86]but programs do have the capacity to provide a grounding in non-business areas and personal growth. [01:46.51]“You want to produce graduates who will be effective. [01:50.45]To do this, they need to know their own skills. [01:53.51]Our job is not only to cram finance down their throats, [01:57.89]but help develop them as people,” [02:00.30]explains Leo Murray, [02:02.81]director of Cranfield School of Management in the U.K. [02:06.52]Cranfield uses philosophy in its core, [02:10.02]which since 1997 has offered an evening lecture series on both Aristotelian and present day thinking. [02:18.12]Self-awareness is crucial at the school, [02:20.85]which will grant the theme even more space. [02:23.91]“These issues help people think,” states Murray. [02:27.30]The better you understand yourself, goes the logic, [02:30.58]the better you can manage others. [02:33.09]The Said Business School (SBS) at Oxford University champions a more integrated approach. [02:39.99]John Kay, SBS director, is keen to leverage the intellectual might of the wider university. [02:47.42]Access to faculty from other disciplines including philosophy, politics and economics, [02:53.88]he believes, could give SBS an edge over other school. [02:58.47]These are surely steps in the right direction. [03:02.09]But there is more. [03:03.50]In future, developing a gut instinct for business may be as important as understanding the figures. [03:10.06]To create an MBA to meet the challenges of the 21st century business schools will have to try harder.

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