We've been very productive at probing the boundaries of ideas and knowledge and tools and disciplines around the science part. I think there's a clue for us around the softer side. We know that if our students have a struggle when they go out into the world, it will not be because they're not smart enough or because they don't have enough good ideas, it will be because they struggle over managing themselves and their relationships with other people. That's the first thing I'd say about the making of our future, that the academic foundation will be critical. Second, we will be a school of management.
Management is our focus.
My personal conviction is that the number one problem in the world today is poor management. Society depends on managed institutions to solve most of our problems and to deliver the goods and services we need. It is those institutions that in many cases are letting us down. Management is something we've been teaching here for a long time. We must see managed institutions perform better as a consequence of what we do here, what we teach here, what we study here, the experiences people have here, and what we research here.