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Cambridge professor Richard Barker writes in Harvard Business Review that “management is not a profession at all and can never be one” and “therefore, business schools are not professional schools.” I’m not persuaded. [more]

Last year about this time I visited Morehouse College, which hosted the business deans of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). During the conference we visited the Martin Luther King, Jr. International Chapel and viewed its inspiring collection of Purvis Young art and humbling Wall of Honor. After hearing the phrase "Morehouse Man" enough times, I began to realize there is something enormously powerful about the culture in place like this. Almost everything seemed to inspire young black men to excel, to achieve greatness. Dr. King, Maynard Jackson, and Spike Lee are all Morehouse Men. [more]

Don’t just produce a bunch of “yellow-skinned Gordon Gekko’s,” pleaded Ho KwonPing, executive chairman of Banyan Holdings Ltd., as he discussed the ascendency of Asia and pressing need to create an alternative form of capitalism that is rooted in the region’s communitarian spirit. Speaking to nearly 180 management educators attending AACSB’s Asia Regional Conference in Singapore, Mr. Ho argued that our young people don’t have anywhere to look for guidance. They can’t find it in the individualism of Anglo-American capitalism, in the state approaches of Europe, or in the “Davos man” that has come to symbolize globalization. And “95% of entrepreneurs in China are not worth emulating,” according to Mr. Ho. Our youth must get thought leadership from our universities and business schools. [more]

Lima traffic is internationally competitive. While stuck in it last week my colleague explained that both Chile and Peru take credit for inventing the deliciously tart cocktail called the Pisco Sour. Her story reminded me that we should not be exceedingly confident in our "knowledge" about the origins of most things. [more]