Pursuits

How Business Schools Create Irresponsible Leaders

People protest in front of the Municipal Theatre of Sao Paulo against a bus fare increase on June 13, 2013Photograph by Paulo Fischer/Brazil Photo Press via Getty Images
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Most business schools have spent the past decade making their programs global in scope, which tends to mean sending students to foreign lands for immersion programs. The model they’re using, however, creates leaders that are dangerously out of touch with the context in which they’re running businesses.

That’s because international field trips and contact with global chief executive officers cannot alone give students an understanding of the social and political issues unique to every market.