B-School Deans & Profs On BREXIT

Britain’s historic vote to exit the European Union has the financial markets in a tizzy and many observers expressing hyperbolic views of a disaster ahead. While BREXIT has many implications for the United Kingdom’s higher education market, much of what will actually occur is uncertain. Some conclude that there will be limited impact. Others are more pessimistic. “The global attractiveness of British higher education will take a hit,” flatly predicts John A. Quench, a Harvard Business School professor who had been dean of London Business School from 1998 to 2001.
“In the 90s, we had a view that globalization was entirely good,” believes Karl Moore, an associate professor at the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University who also had taught at Oxford University. “In retrospect, that was naïve.

Read full article: Poets and Quants, June 24, 2016