Richard Lambert, Director General of the CBI, addresses the Change Management Forum at Sainsbury’s HQ, London.
Richard Lambert spoke to an audience of University of Bath School of Management’s Change Management Forum (CMF), alumni, academics and corporate sponsors on the subject of how business and business schools can work together more effectively.
(Media-Newswire.com) - Richard Lambert spoke to an audience of University of Bath School of Management’s Change Management Forum ( CMF ), alumni, academics and corporate sponsors on the subject of how business and business schools can work together more effectively.
In tackling his theme, the speaker acknowledged the criticism of business schools in their failure to predict the current economic crisis and global financial collapse.
However, he stressed that rather than continue to debate this apparent lack of foresight, business schools now need to focus on how best to prepare the UK’s future business leaders so that they might avoid the mistakes of past generations.
Going beyond this, Richard actively encouraged diversity of gender, culture and thought, on both sides of this relationship and also suggested that future generations need to take a more ethical stance in their future business lives. To this end, some institutions are already considering an oath to be undertaken by students. This notion was actively discussed by the audience as one possible way of raising standards and rebuilding public trust, albeit also problematic to enforce.
Amongst his own theories as to why the research output of UK business schools often seems “obscure”, he noted that academic performance metrics “don’t generally speak to business demands”. Encouraging realignment, the importance of business engagement with business schools was a driving theme throughout the evening with much discussion about the mechanisms for doing so.
The speaker “applauded” the CMF for bringing business and academe together and went on to articulate the need for business schools to play a role in ensuring that UK businesses had the necessary leadership skills and management capability to drive the country forward in the testing economic climate.
The event was hosted by Sainsbury’s of which Justin King, CEO, is a Bath alumnus. The Change Management Forum meets four times a year to provide a venue where ‘thinking practitioners’ and ‘applied academics’ can come together to exchange ideas and knowledge.
For further information about this event and the Change Management Forum, contact Dr Ian Colville – or call 07800 844 587 at the University of Bath School of Management.
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We are one of a select number of international business schools accredited by EQUIS, the European Foundation for Management Development's quality inspectorate and the Bath MBA has been accredited by the Association of MBAs ( AMBA ) since 1976. The School is consistently ranked among the top UK business schools by The Times, The Financial Times and The Guardian.
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