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A new book, The Future of Executive Development, delves into the objective functions of the executive development space, analyzes the demand characteristics of the learners and the organizations that pay for the programs, and the ways in which business schools and other providers deliver (or not) on the promises they make regarding skill development and the continued value of learning to the organization. Authored by Prof. Mihnea Moldoveanu of the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management and Prof. Das Narayandas of Harvard Business School, the book shows how a trio of disruptive forces (disintermediation, disaggregation and decoupling), which have figured prominently in industries disrupted by digitalization, are reshaping the structure of demand for executive development. The authors look at the future of executive development in the era of self-refining algorithms (aka machine learning) massively distributed learning engines and wearable sensors and offer a compass for CEOs and CLOs guiding executive development design. The book, published by Stanford University Press and based on a five-year study undertaken by the Rotman School of Management and the Harvard Business School, offers a guide for to optimize the learning production function for both skill acquisition and skill transfer – the two charges that the new skills economy has laid out for educational enterprises at any level.
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