Audio: Deans’ roundtable

A roundtable discussion between the deans of 11 top business schools was hosted by the the University of Chicago graduate school of business on July 10, 2007. The Financial Times will bring you four extracts from the discussion.

In this first extract, the discussion turned to the differences between European and US-based business schools.

Participating are:

• Santiago Iniguez, dean of IE Business School (Spain)
• Arnoud De Meyer, director of the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge (UK)
• Edward Snyder, dean of the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business (US)
• Dipak Jain, dean of the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University (US)
• Glenn Hubbard, dean of Columbia Business School (US)
• Bernard Ramanantsoa, dean of HEC Paris (France)
• Frank Brown, dean of Insead (France and Singapore)
• Jordi Canals, dean of Iese Business School (Spain)
• Colin Mayer, dean of the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford (UK)

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In the second extract, the discussion turned to the advantages and disadvantages of working in both a stand-alone and a university-based business school.

Participating are:

• Edward Snyder, dean of the Chicago Graduate School of Business
• Robert Joss, dean of the Stanford Graduate School of Business
• Glenn Hubbard, dean of Columbia Graduate School of Business
• Colin Mayer, dean of the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford
• Arnoud De Meyer, director of the Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge
• Frank Brown, dean of Insead
• Jordi Canals, dean of Iese Business School
• Peter Lorange, President of IMD

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In the third extract the deans answered questions from journalists.

Participating are:

• Dipak Jain, dean of the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
• Frank Brown, dean of Insead
• Edward Snyder, dean of the Chicago Graduate School of Business
• Santiago Iniguez, dean of IE Business School
• Glenn Hubbard, dean of Columbia Business School
• Jordi Canals, dean of Iese Business School

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In the fourth extract the deans answered more journalists’ questions.

Participating are:

• Frank Brown, dean of Insead
• Robert Joss, dean of the Stanford Graduate School of Business
• Bernard Ramanantsoa, dean of HEC Paris
• Peter Lorange, president of IMD
• Arnoud De Meyer, director of the Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge
• Edward Snyder, dean of the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business
• Santiago Iniguez, dean of IE Business School

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