Humanities in Business Education: Who's Getting a Move on Here?

Par Sunmin Kim. Published in 2011, the second Carnegie Report evoked numerous debates among business scholars. According to the report, business schools are in need of a makeover, specifically to incorporate more humanities and social sciences. Alongside US-based Carnegie Foundation and Aspen Institute, teachers at University of St. Gallen, Barcelona's ESADE Business School and Copenhagen Business School are trying to move the report's agenda forward.
It wouldn't be the first time that a Carnegie Report changed business and management education. When the Carnegie Corporation of New York (which established the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching -- "Carnegie Foundation") commissioned and financed the first study on business education in 1959, the conclusion it drew was a lack of quantitative studies at business schools. With the simultaneous publishing of "Higher Education for Business" by the Ford Foundation with similar findings, business education was subsequently reformed according to the reports' findings and recommendations. Read more...