Content written by Angela Montgomery and published by Intelligent Management Inc
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Extracted Content: Many business schools continue to offer the same curriculum to their students, even though they are aware that much of it is out of date. While executives will always need to understand things like marketing, finance and how to read a balance sheet, business schools are not able to offer the subjects in a sufficiently interconnected way for today’s reality. Why? Because like most organizations, schools are structured hierarchically and in silos. Even if schools consider themselves to be interdisciplinary, this structural limitation prevents them from innovating what they teach and the way they teach it in a significant way. Their courses are offered in ‘pieces’ that are then assembled together, but they never form a holistic whole.