What can academic theory teach business What can academic theory teach business practitioners about the management of human practitioners about the management of human

resource strategy?resource strategy?

How can academics contribute to the How can academics contribute to the unfolding revolution in commercial life?unfolding revolution in commercial life?

Where we are going?

How could we respond to the How could we respond to the controversy over the bankers’ controversy over the bankers’

bonuses?bonuses?

Outcomes

Illustrate theoretical precepts

Model networked organizations

Perceive our role in the debates that will follow the banking crisis

Key ideas

Know the situation, know the circumstances

Sun Tzu

There is nothing so practical as good theory

Kurt Lewin

The good, the true, the better and the possible

David Cooperrider

Call an unconference

Physical arrangements

Organize via 2.0

Involve our students fully

Stimulate the conversation

Rapid prototyping

My sense of the future

Host relevant conversations

Model networked organizations

Begin the conversation about changing employment relationships

David Cooperrider

It is essential that we enable our young people to see themselves as participants in one of the most creative

episodes in management history.

We can instill in them an overarching perspective and sense of purpose in relation to the sustainable value

revolution.

We are on the eve of management education's finest hour.

August 2008

Acknowledgements

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