Fostering integrative thinking: Adapting the executive education model to the MBA program

Journal of Management Education

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 3-18

  Latham, Gary ^a   Latham, Soosan D ^b   Whyte, Glen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b JP Morgan Chase   (United States)

Author keywords

executive education; integrative thinking; MBA

Indexed keywords

EID: 84990393813     PISSN: 10525629     EISSN: 15526658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1052562903252647     Document Type: Article

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