The Harvard Business Review is hosting an online "debate" on How to Fix Business Schools.   The first salvo is fired by Joel Podolny, a long time academic who just took a job Apple as a a vice-president and is now the "dean" of of Apple University.  A bunch of us will be joining the debate.  I wrote something placing the blame partly on the excessive stature given to the field of economics in business schools, although that is one part of a complex set of problems — I am not sure when it will appear.  Another issue, which Joel touches on, is that most business schools focus more on teaching people how to talk about management than teaching them to actually do it.  As an academic who is paid to talk and write about management, it is pretty clear to me by now that it is a lot easier to talk about than to actually do it!  By the way, Joel is one of the rare academics who actually seems to talk about and do it well.