MBA 留学：多様性の大切性 - The Importance of Diversity

Duke, Cornell, and UNC MBAs Talk about Classroom Diversity

BusinessWeek recently is MBA students from all over the world what the next generation of business leaders is thinking. Recently it asked: Does the curriculum at your business school expose you to a diverse array of leaders and other professionals? (Diversity could mean gender, ethnicity, class, or other characteristics.) What would you like to see more of?

Here are some comments:

“As a gay man, I would like to see some more LGBT alums/faculty discuss and/or address issues of gender and sexuality in the workplace, whether it is part of academic case studies, guest lecturers, or career-related events. While there is a diverse array of personalities [in B-school], a majority of [people] live in the MBA/academic bubble, especially faculty. It would be nice to get outside perspective from time to time. I don’t think these are critiques that would be unique to Cornell Johnson, though, as I have heard exactly the same feedback from friends at other top programs, such a Chicago Booth, HBS, NYU Stern, and Stanford.” — Arnab Mukherjee, Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University

“Our curriculum could do a better job of showing diversity in business through cases. However, I’m sure they are limited by what’s available. We already know the vast majority of Fortune 500 [chief executives] are men. It would be great if they could find more female and diverse leaders to focus on.” —Jessica Fischburg, Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina

“The curriculum at times brings in leaders or other professionals. However, I don’t believe our curriculum is designed in a way that makes this a priority. What is important is the career office and student-run clubs inviting leaders and professionals in a number of functions to the school to speak to interested students. Within this context, I am exposed to a diverse range of leaders and professionals.” — Dominic Rasini, Simon Graduate School of Business, University of Rochester

“While there is a clear focus on bringing in students and faculty with diverse ethnicity, gender, and sexuality, I think more could be done to include socioeconomic factors in the concept of diversity.” — Sam Lambson, Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University

“Given Fuqua’s international focus, I think they show strong diversity within the curriculum in terms of global leaders and professionals. Cases, speakers, and projects usually have an international component. Gender is something that our AWIB [Association of Women in Business] club has done a great job in highlighting with a series of extracurricular events with faculty and guests. 

— Simon Moore-Crouch, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University

 

Courtesy of BusinessWeek

Business School Deans visit ホワイトハウス

White House senior advisors met with business school deans in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, April 16, 2014.

As part of the lead up to the White House Summit on Working Families, the Obama administration sought advice from leading business schools to discuss best practices for business schools for boosting women in the labor force.

One study of MBA graduatesfrom a leading institution found that women earned $115K on average when they graduate and $250K after nine years while men earn $130K when they graduate and $400K after nine years.

CEA analysis has shown that a similar trend holds for all men and women with a professional degree—the pay gap grows over time and earnings are more than 50 percent higher for men when professionals are in their late 30s.

One important reason for this disparity is the lack of flexibility in the workplace. Surveys of MBA graduates demonstrate that women are penalized due to career interruptions, often from motherhood.

Even if women are working, they often must accept positions that offer significantly lower pay or growth opportunities in order to have flexible work schedules to balance responsibilities outside of the workplace.

Business schools can take important steps to prepare the next generation of business leaders to focus on these issues. In order to ensure business practices that fully utilize a 21st century workforce, it is important for business school deans to update their curriculum and practices to fully reflect the importance of women and working families in our labor market.

The business school deans who contributed to today’s valuable discussion:
    •    Maryam Alavi, Emory University (Goizueta)
    •    Sally Blount, Northwestern University (Kellogg)
    •    William Boulding, Duke University (Fuqua)
    •    Robert F. Bruner, University of Virginia (Darden)
    •    Robert M. Dammon, Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper)
    •    Alison Davis-Blake, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (Ross)
    •    Soumitra Dutta, Cornell University (Johnson)
    •    Thomas W. Gilligan, University of Texas, Austin (McCombs)
    •    Peter Blair Henry, New York University (Stern)
    •    Richard K. Lyons, University of California, Berkeley (Haas)
    •    Nitin Nohria, Harvard Business School
    •    Judy D. Olian, University of California, Los Angeles (Anderson)
    •    Douglas A. Shackelford, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler)
    •    Edward A. Snyder, Yale University
For more details on the Working Families Summit: visit http://workingfamiliessummit.org/.

For more information, please see the Whitehouse website!

Fuqua School Gets New Dean

The Fuqua School of Business at Duke University has chosen its current dean, William Boulding, to serve a full five-year term.

Boulding, a marketing and management expert, assumed the position of dean in 2011 for an initial two-year term following the resignation of former Dean Blair Sheppard.

 Boulding has been a member of the Fuqua faculty since 1984 and has won multiple teaching awards. In his 18 months as dean, he is credited with strengthening Fuqua’s programs on its home campus in Durham while also deepening the school’s connections with students, faculty and alumni in other parts of the world, including at the school’s sites in China, India, Russia, the United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom.

Source: Fuqua School of Business