Rain Man or Pied Piper? Moving Business Schools Beyond Media Rankings with Mass Customization and Stakeholder Education

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Academy of Management PerspectivesVol. 22, No. 1 Rain Man or Pied Piper? Moving Business Schools Beyond Media Rankings with Mass Customization and Stakeholder EducationWilliam H. GlickWilliam H. GlickWilliam H. Glick () is the Dean and H. Joe Nelson III Professor of Management at the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management, Rice University.Published Online:1 Feb 2008https://doi.org/10.5465/amp.2008.31217509AboutSectionsView articleView Full TextPDF/EPUB ToolsDownload CitationsAdd to favoritesTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail View articleReferences Davis S. (1996). Future perfect. Harlow, England: Addison-Wesley. Google Scholar Graduate Management Admission Council. (2006). MBA reporting criteria. McLean, VA: Author. Google Scholar MBA Career Services Council. (2006). Standards for reporting MBA employment statistics, edition III. Retrieved February 8, 2008, from www.mbacsc.org/download/StandardsEditionIII.pdf. Google Scholar Pine B. J. (1993). Mass customization: The new frontier in business competition. Boston: Harvard Business School Press. Google Scholar Safón V. (2007). Factors that influence recruiters' choice of B-schools and their MBA graduates: Evidence and implications for B-schools. Academy of Management Learning & Education, 6(2), 217–233.Abstract , Google Scholar U.S. News and World Report. (2001–2008). U.S. News and World Report America's Best Graduate Schools. Google Scholar Zemsky R. (2008). The rain man cometh—again. Academy of Management Perspectives, 22(1). Google ScholarFiguresReferencesRelatedDetailsCited byEngines of Anxiety: Academic Rankings, Reputation, and Accountability, by Wendy Nelson Espeland and Michael Sauder. New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation, 2016, 2015, 281 pages, paperEngines of Anxiety: Academic Rankings, Reputation, and Accountability, by Wendy Nelson Espeland and Michael Sauder. New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation, 2016, 2015, 281 pages, paper Reviewed by William KoprowskiWilliam Koprowski8 July 2019 | Academy of Management Learning & Education, Vol. 18, No. 2Presidential Address: Embracing the Sacred in Our Secular Scholarly WorldJames P. Walsh30 November 2017 | Academy of Management Review, Vol. 36, No. 2How Can a Bourdieusian Perspective Aid Analysis of MBA Education?Eero Vaara and Eric Faÿ30 November 2017 | Academy of Management Learning & Education, Vol. 10, No. 1 Vol. 22, No. 1 Permissions Metrics in the past 12 months History Published online 1 February 2008 Published in print 1 February 2008 Information© Academy of Management JournalKeywordsUNIVERSITIES & colleges -- Ratings & rankingsBUSINESS schoolsREADERSHIPGRADUATE Management Admission TestEDUCATION in mass mediaEDUCATIONAL qualityThe author wishes to thank Deanna Golden and Elizabeth Kuntz for their comments on an earlier version of this manuscript.Download PDF