Shaping management education in S'pore

DURING the Asian Management Conclave (AMC) held at Singapore Management University (SMU) last month, deans of leading business schools in Asia came together to discuss the future of management education. Themed Management Education in Asia: Strategies to Leapfrog, AMC 2015 was jointly organised by SMU and management education think-tank MBAUniverse.com. It featured presentations and discussions by thought leaders and executives from 15 Asian economies, the United States and Europe. The underlying theme was that Asian business schools need to come together to share practices, create new knowledge and collaborate to have a bigger presence on the world stage.

One might observe that the mood of this meeting was to figure out strategies to beat the American and European schools at their own game. Yet much of this bravado could turn out to be verbal posturing and not much more. …