The Monster Under the Bed . Walk through the William and Rosemary Gallagher Building with Larry Gianchetta, dean of the School of Business Administration, and you'll be impressed. With sunlight streaming through acres of blue-tinted glass, the handsome building seems flooded with the radiance of a bright future. Classrooms look like a cross between a corporate conference room and the bridge of the Starship Enterprise. Computer labs stretch on endlessly.
Corner offices are lavish and airy, enough to tempt a rival CEO into dreams of a hostile takeover.
And it's got a monster panting at the gates. In the early 1990s, when he first awoke to the crisis facing the business of business education, Gianchetta presided over a professional school whose 1950s-era quarters symbolized almost too neatly his sense that the school's curriculum needed major changes. Course materials have been upgraded, and some class offerings have changed, but the 1960s product is still quite recognizable and serviceable in the 1990s. Gianchetta's wake-up call was The Monster Under the Bed , a visionary look at how technology is transforming business and education. This will give way to an Age of Knowledge, the authors maintain, when computers, telecommunications and people co-exist so smoothly that anyone will be able to access the power of technology without any special training.