Sebastian Schloemer Livres

The increasing complexity and dynamics of the corporate world have lately become almost proverbial. Massive changes in economies and markets require companies to change swiftly as well. The question then arises what this means for leaders and leadership in organizations. The title „Leading in complexity“ encompasses a wide range of topics and thoughts surrounding the concepts of leadership and complexity which were presented and discussed by German and international experts at the 3rd Augsburg Conference (University of Augsburg, Germany, in October 2008). The results are summarized in these conference proceedings which contain contributions on positive leadership, leadership and self-organization, innovation reord

MBA-Programs are the flagship product of business schools world-wide. The increasing enrolment as well as the price range of these postgraduate business degree programs reflect this relevance. In a second step, one of the benchmark MBA-programs is analyzed by means of an interview-based case study. Here, the objective is to gain a holistic view from the perspective of participating persons, students and faculty. The ample use of illustrative interview passages is intended to allow a concrete impression of (learning) processes in such a program. In the third part of the book, insights gained in the literature review and case study are joined into a design framework which provides guidance for business school executives and faculty who want to implement a similar program at their institution. Overall, the project-based MBA is presented as a viable alternative suited to solve the problems typically associated with traditional MBA-programs. At the same time, risk factors and implementation challenges to the project-based approach are identified as well, so that the approach is not presented as the one best solution.