"A natural place to start is with some of the myths about teaching MBA students. It is said that that MBA students do not want to learn about economics, and especially not micro! More generally, it is said that they don’t like the tough subjects like economics and statistics, but prefer the more approachable subjects such as marketing and strategy. It is said that they haven’t the patience for intellectual rigour, but want everything distilled to a few bullet points. Finally, it is said that they are not much concerned about the research prowess of their teachers, or even their institution. If they have any view about research, it is said that they see research as something that so preoccupies their tutors, that these do not pay enough attention to their teaching." - Prof.Peter Swann.
To get some pre-class room knowledge for the MBA at Manchester Business School,best bid(as of now) of my life,I was collecting some information.And I found a very interesting Case Study presented by the Ex-Professor of Economics and Management of Innovation at the University of Manchester.Currently he is teaching Industrial Economics at Nottingham Business School.
Here he presents the most often encountered challenges as a teacher at Business Schools and also provides an insight into the minds of teachers at these schools.It is very common and normal to understand the business school from the view point of the MBA student or the Industry.But here we can find the observations from the Business Guru at the School,who is in teaching business for more than a decade and some of his observations are "shocking".And also the expectations from the MBA students from the premier schools and also managing stress levels are clearly illustrated.
Complete Case study is available at:
http://www.economicsnetwork.ac.uk/advice/mba.htm#notes
About Professor:
http://virtualsociety.sbs.ox.ac.uk/people/swann.htm
