Business Schools Are Stuck in a Self-Reinforcing Bubble

It’s fashionable for some business schools to lament their affiliations with universities, even going so far as to call for complete separation. But striving for a split is wrongheaded. Independence would hurt, not help, most MBA programs.

Many business schools go to great lengths to divorce themselves from their parent universities. Some set themselves up as legally independent entities. Others, while proudly carrying university surnames, distance themselves by creating geographic and institutional barriers.