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Why Business Schools Should Let Their Students Start Businesses

January 27, 2016 /

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Students sense a gap between what they are learning in the classroom and the application of that learning to their career objectives.

Stanford’s Graduate School of Business recently admonished its students to wait until graduation to work on their startups. Garth Saloner, the dean of the school, was quoted in a Wall Street Journal article as saying, "we’re not the graduate school of entrepreneurship."

With due respect to Stanford and to Mr. Saloner, I think this is the wrong perspective to take on an opportunity to reshape business education.

KARL ULRICH

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