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requires imagination . Its strategy is to admit a higher than average high proportion of people with nontraditional backgrounds , but who have an entrepreneurial spirit and are able to embrace new opportunities in a quickly changing business landscape . One change that has already happened is the way entrepreneurship is practised rather than just taught in MBA programmes . After all , MBA students are already experienced professionals , who can ’ t be expected to sit on their hands for two years .
Paul Judge has also been for many years President of the Association of MBAs ( AMBA ), the only global accreditation body specifically for the qualification . In a recent article in the Independent , the AMBA ’ s CEO Andrew Main Wilson predicted five radical changes to the MBA environment : increasing recourse to alternative funding ; greater specialisation ; more focus on entrepreneurship ; changes in curricula , for example to embrace CSR issues ; and greater use of flexible learning methods like distance learning .
Read any major company ’ s annual report over the last five years and you will be struck by the focus shift from hard performance data to the
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triple bottom line . They have woken up to the business case for social and environmental responsibility . Leadership in this area has been shown by Audencia Nantes , one of the most committed management schools in the world in the area of CSR . It is one of only 30 champion schools worldwide for the UN ’ s Principles of Responsible Management Education . André Sobczak , director of the
18 June 2015