January 20, 2006

A Medical Model for Business Schools

To the Editor:

John Quelch's "A New Agenda for Business Schools" (The Chronicle Review, December 2) provides a partial explanation of the woes of current M.B.A. programs. But the problem goes beyond "'hard,' analytical number-crunching techniques" versus "'soft' skills such as leadership, team problem solving, and general management," and "empirical" versus "clinical." The latter distinction should really be theoretical versus empirical research.

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