Expertise, Teaching, and Craft

My vision of the future: The business school is not an architectural masterpiece across the river from the main campus. It now sits squarely in the middle of campus, a slightly worse for the wear place where students of all disciplines come and go. On campus, it is not even called The Business School. Instead, it goes by its nickname, “The School of Getting Shit Done.” Small teams of students are gathered in small conference rooms working on projects to bring the work of the engineers, the artists, and the scientists into the wider world. They build the organizations that allow the rest of the university to have impact and fulfill its mission of benefiting society. This is where the business artists of the future learn their craft as they work with their peers across campus. Like most artists, they learn to work in many mediums, including money and buzz and connection between people. The faculty wander in and out of the business studios, offering practical demonstrations of craft skill, hands-on advice, and critique sessions. And you can feel the energy, you can feel that, indeed, shit is getting done