LETTER: If academics understood businesses they would run them
28 July 2022 - 05:00
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Your business schools feature (CoverStory, July 21-27) should read: “How Executives Can Drag Dinosaur Business Schools into the Post-Covid Era”. If you want to learn about business, the last place you go is a business school. If business school academics knew about business, they would be in business, not marking scripts.
My most absurd experience of running two business schools was that MBA students pitched up for weekend lectures with the latest German sedans and were lectured on entrepreneurship by academics with 25-year-old Toyotas.
If you want to learn how to swim, you don’t go to the desert. Come on, FM, you can do better.
Prof Hoosen Rasool FR Research
The FM welcomes concise letters from readers. They can be sent tofmmail@fm.co.za
Support our award-winning journalism. The Premium package (digital only) is R30 for the first month and thereafter you pay R129 p/m now ad-free for all subscribers.
LETTER: If academics understood businesses they would run them
Your business schools feature (Cover Story, July 21-27) should read: “How Executives Can Drag Dinosaur Business Schools into the Post-Covid Era”. If you want to learn about business, the last place you go is a business school. If business school academics knew about business, they would be in business, not marking scripts.
My most absurd experience of running two business schools was that MBA students pitched up for weekend lectures with the latest German sedans and were lectured on entrepreneurship by academics with 25-year-old Toyotas.
If you want to learn how to swim, you don’t go to the desert. Come on, FM, you can do better.
Prof Hoosen Rasool
FR Research
The FM welcomes concise letters from readers. They can be sent to fmmail@fm.co.za
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