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Socrates in the boardroom

Goodall, Amanda H

2009,2010

Overview

Socrates in the Boardroom argues that world-class scholars, not administrators, make the best leaders of research universities. Amanda Goodall cuts through the rhetoric and misinformation swirling around this contentious issue--such as the assertion that academics simply don't have the managerial expertise needed to head the world's leading schools--using hard evidence and careful, dispassionate analysis. She shows precisely why experts need leaders who are experts like themselves. Goodall draws from the latest data on the world's premier research universities along with in-depth interviews with top university leaders both past and present, including University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann; Derek Bok and Lawrence Summers, former presidents of Harvard University; John Hood, former vice chancellor of the University of Oxford; Cornell University President David Skorton; and many others. Goodall explains why the most effective leaders are those who have deep expertise in what their organizations actually do. Her findings carry broad implications for the management of higher education, and she demonstrates that the same fundamental principle holds true for other important business sectors as well.

• Publisher: Princeton Univ. Press,Princeton University Press
• Subject: Academic department / Administration / Andrew Oswald / Assistant professor / Athletics / British Library / Business Administration Education / Business education / Business ethics / Business school / Business sector / Business studies / CEO succession / Chancellor (education) / Classroom / College Administration / College Presidents / College presidents -- Rating of / Consultant / Core business / David Maister / Deans / Doctor of Philosophy / Economics / Economist / EDUCATION / EDUCATION / Administration / General / EDUCATION / Higher / EDUCATION / Leadership / Educational leadership / Evaluation / Executive ability / Executive search / Expertise / Faculty (academic staff) / Financial Times / Fine Arts / Führungskraft / Harvard Business School / Henry Rosovsky / Higher education in the United States / Hochschullehrer / Imperial College London / Informational interview / Institute of Technology (United States) / Institution / Job interview / Leadership / League Table / Lecture / Lecturer / London Business School / London School of Economics / Management / Management consulting / Managerialism / Master of Business Administration / Meeting / Mike Lazaridis / Nobel Prize / Paul Nurse / Peer review / Personnel Selection / Plate glass university / Politician / President University / Professional Occupations / Professional services / Professor / Professors in the United States / Psychologist / Public university / Rating of / Research Assessment Exercise / Research assistant / Research Universities / Robert Burgess (sociologist) / Seminar / Social science / Succession planning / Supervisor / Thesis / Universities and colleges / Universities and colleges -- Evaluation / Universities in the United Kingdom / Universities UK / University / University College London / University council / University of Bath / University of Massachusetts Lowell / University of Pennsylvania / University of Tokyo / Universität / Warwick Business School / Web of Science / Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
• ISBN: 0691138001, 9780691138008, 9781400831586, 140083158X