Content written by Corey Phelps and published by GettingSmart.com. 

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Extracted Content: Business schools (b-school) fall short on nurturing complex problem solving, largely because of how they’re organized. B-school faculties are usually arranged in functional silos, where specialized knowledge—such as finance, accounting or HR—is taught in specialized courses by narrow technical experts. Because complex problem solving is integrative, it cuts across these silos. This means that all departments are responsible for helping students become better problem solvers, but none of them own the challenge and take the lead in addressing it. Consequently, the typical b-school doesn’t teach complex problem solving as part of the core curriculum or provide much opportunity to practice and get feedback on it. Even the vaunted case study method has become a tool to teach specialized frameworks and to address narrowly circumscribed problems that often come clearly defined for the reader.

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