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Learning and Teaching Business

Lessons and Insights from a Lifetime of Work

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Authors:
  1. Peter Lorange

    1. IMD, Lausanne, Switzerland

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  • Helps develop a practice-oriented curriculum design for business schools
  • Highlights the most important strategic factors for business which need to be taught
  • Includes a specific focus on managing businesses, especially family businesses

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Part I

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Upbringing and Education

      • Peter Lorange
      Pages 3-9

    3. Experiences from Academia and Academic Administration

      • Peter Lorange
      Pages 11-24

    4. The Role of Research

      • Peter Lorange
      Pages 25-31

    5. Influences from Family and Friends

      • Peter Lorange
      Pages 33-44

  3. Part II

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 45-46
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    2. Lorange Institute and Lorange Network

      • Peter Lorange
      Pages 47-53

    3. Family Business Strategies

      • Peter Lorange
      Pages 55-63

    4. Board Membership and Consulting Assignments

      • Peter Lorange
      Pages 65-79

  4. Part III

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 81-83
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    2. Quality of Education, Career, Business, and Art

      • Peter Lorange
      Pages 85-98

    3. Diversity Is Key!

      • Peter Lorange
      Pages 99-109

    4. The Importance of Managing Risk and Uncertainty

      • Peter Lorange
      Pages 111-118

    5. Discipline and Integrity in Decision-Making

      • Peter Lorange
      Pages 119-127

  5. Part IV

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 129-129
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    2. Networking: An Emerging and Ongoing Dictum

      • Peter Lorange
      Pages 131-137

    3. The Importance of Gaining and Maintaining Speed

      • Peter Lorange
      Pages 139-145

    4. Proactivity, Positivity, and Innovation

      • Peter Lorange
      Pages 147-152

    5. Cycle Management: Entries and Exits

      • Peter Lorange
      Pages 153-159
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About this book

Businesses constantly look for ways to achieve better performance, and business schools play an important role through their curricula by teaching such methods and helping budding and experienced managers find innovative paths. The author of this book, Prof. Peter Lorange, a well-accomplished expert at business and academic leadership, draws on a set of reflections from his vast experience in both fields to offer core messages which help in improving business education. The author believes that experience-based reflections tend to be both more interesting and more useful than mere chronological, biographical ones, or conceptual reviews of management dimensions without links to practice. The book helps academics, business school management, and even advanced students understand how to bring a practical focus to learning and teaching business via a holistic curriculum. The book also features a special focus on how to integrate family business perspectives to the curriculum.

Authors and Affiliations

  • IMD, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Peter Lorange

About the author

Peter Lorange, Honorary President, IMD, is a successful entrepreneur and owner of a highly diversified family investment company.  He is regarded as one of the world’s foremost business school academics, holding the position of President at IMD, Lausanne (Switzerland) for 15 years, having also been President of Norwegian School of Business, as well as a Professor at Wharton and at Sloan School (MIT). He has had several positions on various boards. His entrepreneurial journey spans key areas such as education, shipping, investments, and real estate businesses. 



Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Learning and Teaching Business

  • Book Subtitle: Lessons and Insights from a Lifetime of Work

  • Authors: Peter Lorange

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14564-3

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-14563-6Published: 11 October 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-14564-3Published: 10 October 2022

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 177

  • Topics: Management Education, Higher Education, Family Business

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