Toronto's Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto was praised by the
New York Times last week for its initiative approach to business education. The article highlights that Rotman's multifaceted approach to business training - focusing on critical and creative thinking - is now common practice in successful business schools across North America.
"A decade ago, Roger Martin, the new dean of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, had an epiphany�'The 'Eureka' moment was when I could draw a data point between a hotshot, investment bank-oriented star lawyer and an elementary school principal," Mr. Martin recalls. "I thought: 'Holy smokes. In completely different situations, these people are thinking in very similar ways, and there may be something special about this pattern of thinking."
"That insight led Mr. Martin to begin advocating what was then a radical idea in business education: that students needed to learn how to think critically and creatively every bit as much as they needed to learn finance or accounting. More specifically, they needed to learn how to approach problems from many perspectives and to combine various approaches to find innovative solutions."
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