Why US B Schools are at the TOP?
Fifty years back Indians used to look at cambridge and Oxford as the top universities. But that is no more the case. I recently found some interesting research papers, internet postings, etc that proves what is so special about US Universities and why they have dominated the world.
An accounting professor from a well-known university got the best teacher's award. (In US most B School students select one of the professors as the best professor for the year) And at the end of the year he was politely asked to leave the school. The reason is that he did not publish a single paper that year. There is a very well know lady in another top-rated school who got promoted despite having got poor feedback from students. The reason is that she publishes very frequently in well-known journals.
This penchant for research- the slogan that publish else perish- is what keeps the US Universities and B-Schools at the top. In fact an internet site for PhD students advises PhD students not to give a good seminar at the time of recruitmenmt. The reason is obvious. Those who give good seminars will inevitably turn out to be good teachers. That means they will often be visited by students for all sorts of things. And that means less time for research. So an unwritten policy most top schools follow (the internet site claims so) is do not recruit somebody who gives a very good seminar.
You need guts to take such decisions. But it pays handsomely. As my professor at IIM B used to tell me the job of a management school teacher is to create knowledge not to disseminate it. The dissemination part can be left to lesser mortals.
Not everybody may agree. But as somebody said "If you do not like my ideas then there are others".
An accounting professor from a well-known university got the best teacher's award. (In US most B School students select one of the professors as the best professor for the year) And at the end of the year he was politely asked to leave the school. The reason is that he did not publish a single paper that year. There is a very well know lady in another top-rated school who got promoted despite having got poor feedback from students. The reason is that she publishes very frequently in well-known journals.
This penchant for research- the slogan that publish else perish- is what keeps the US Universities and B-Schools at the top. In fact an internet site for PhD students advises PhD students not to give a good seminar at the time of recruitmenmt. The reason is obvious. Those who give good seminars will inevitably turn out to be good teachers. That means they will often be visited by students for all sorts of things. And that means less time for research. So an unwritten policy most top schools follow (the internet site claims so) is do not recruit somebody who gives a very good seminar.
You need guts to take such decisions. But it pays handsomely. As my professor at IIM B used to tell me the job of a management school teacher is to create knowledge not to disseminate it. The dissemination part can be left to lesser mortals.
Not everybody may agree. But as somebody said "If you do not like my ideas then there are others".
posted by Pitabas Mohanty at 6:56 AM
3 Comments:
sir i was going through your blogs and this blog would unanimously win the blogger's contest......
Sir.. I was student and a big time admirer of your teaching @ XLRI.
1) if universities are run on business motives then what would be value of spending on original research for a univ? Acquiring it from journals is much more cost effective?
2) If they are run on govt. funds and non-business motives then 'should govt. sponsor research in business knowledge' is a matter of priority and I doubt how highly it rates for Indian govt.
3) If original research is sponsored by corporates then just that US B-schools are using a different model then Indian schools. May be when Indian industry is mature enough to catch up with already available innovations then our industry may feel the urge for sponsoring original research.
I feel in none of the cases lack of guts to take appropriate decision is the cause of the problem.
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