Pursuit of Relevance in Management Education Harvard Case Solution & Analysis

History of North American management education can be viewed as extended debate over the proper balance between empirical knowledge and scientific knowledge in the pursuit of relevance. Explores some of the features of this debate, including arguments, relevance, usually ambiguous and short-sighted, and, therefore, potentially harmful, and also claims that the significance, as it is usually conceived fundamentally irrelevant to the design of education. Explores how this debate has contributed to the development of the business school, and shows how the pursuit of relevance can be supplemented with the persecution of meaning and beauty. "Hide
on Mi Augier, James G. March Source: California Management Review 19 pages. Publication Date: 01 May 2007. Prod. #: CMR368-PDF-ENG

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