At Antai, we think responsible research is practice-based research, addressing real problems, and challenges
FANGRUO CHEN Dean of Antai College of
Economics and Management, Shanghai JiaoTong University
FAN WANG Assistant President and Dean
This is something we should focus on over the next 30 years, or even longer. I think, for Business Schools, there are two things that we do. One is research, the other is teaching. But the core is really the research because this is knowledge creation. Knowledge – once you’re created it – is something that we can teach to our students and hopefully we help them succeed in real life. Research is the most fundamental part in my view. We need to do responsible research now. What is responsible research? I think different Schools can have their own interpretations. At Antai, we think responsible research is practice- based research, addressing real problems, and On one hand, we still want publish in journals, on the other, we need to create a new direction. Even in the short term, we are creating products that might not look like what we have published in academic journals. We should be more open and more inclusive and supportive of new ideas and new forms of knowledge creation so that we can have some kind of breakthrough, have more useful knowledge and teach this knowledge to our classrooms. I think this is the way forward. challenges and even though the result might not be immediately publishable in academic journals.
enhanced in business education, through new models, modules, or research practices and in general in education. FW: Our idea is that responsibility and sustainability are very important, not only for MBA and EMBA programmers, but for all our programmes. [Some Schools] include this issue of sustainability at the very beginning and end of core courses, and offer selective course like the business ethics, but we don’t think it is enough. Maybe a better way would be for Schools to include some of the sustainability teaching content in the curriculum for each of their programmes, so that accounting professionals learn how accounting and finance can use sustainability and the company is healthy for the long term – not only at company level, but for the region and the country level. FC: Going forward, I think the biggest challenge for Business Schools will be to demonstrate our value proposition to society at large. What value we can create for our society and for our students? I think we should be mindful of this because we have lots of competition. Companies have their own universities and their own kinds of institution offering something like the MBA. So, the value proposition is the key.
at the Business School, Sun Yat-sen University
JIANG WEI
Dean of the School of Management at Zhejiang University
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