Two semester of simulating real business situations with pros to guide you is invaluable. - John Poston '05
Harvard Business School Associate Professor Decries Lack of Stewardship at Nation’s Business Schools
10/02/2007
Austin, Texas – Traditional MBA programs cringed earlier this week when the Wall Street Journal published a story that critiqued business schools’ evolution over the
past 50 years.
In the article, Harvard Business School Associate Professor, Rakesh Khurana, asserts that business schools “have lost track of their original
mission to produce far-sighted leaders. The logic of stewardship has disappeared.”
That may be true for most schools, but certainly not at the Acton School of
Business (www.actonmba.org), the nation’s only MBA program tailored exclusively to entrepreneurship.
At Acton, students spend 80 to 90 hours each week standing
in the shoes of an entrepreneur making tough decisions in over 300 real-world case studies, running real assembly lines and selling products door-to-door.
Acton
students are taught by successful, practicing entrepreneurs, not professors who have spent a lifetime in academia. In fact, tenure is not an option at Acton. All
entrepreneur-teachers are evaluated by the students and salaries, bonuses and whether or not a teacher continues in the program are determined by how well students
feel they have been served.
Acton’s focus on teaching and private sector incentives has paid off. The Princeton Review has consistently ranked Acton’s
entrepreneur-teachers among the best MBA faculties in the country.
What’s more, Acton students must take a “Life of Meaning” course in order to graduate. This
course requires students to delve deeply within themselves to find a calling in business; a lifelong mission that will allow them to use their greatest talents and
passions to satisfy a burning need in the world.
The Austin, Texas, based Acton MBA in Entrepreneurship is offered through Hardin Simmons
University.
