When Piet Naudé addressed fellow business school deans in a seminar at the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management, he posed an unexpected question: “How many of you wake up in the morning and realise that defending democracy is part of your task today?”
While schools around the world teach many shared skills to students with common aspirations, there are important nuances by geography and culture. In Contemporary Management Education, Naudé, whose training was in theological ethics, gives a polemical voice notably to institutions in his native South Africa, where until recently he was director of the University of Stellenbosch Business School.
Some of the questions he says will shape the future of management education — and the world to which it must respond — would resonate with that gathering in Frankfurt and his counterparts elsewhere in Europe and North America, such as those around technology and leadership….
