Series 2, Episode 8 - The curious history of business school classes for executives' wives, with Professor Allison Elias, University of Virginia Darden School of Business, and Professor Rolv Petter Storvik Amdam, BI Norwegian Business School

An MBA is seen by many aspiring executives as a rite of passage and a necessary step in order to develop their network, hone their skills and fine-tune their hard won business acumen. While once upon a time the top business schools tended to serve an almost exclusively male audience, thankfully these days business schools around the world make a significant effort to enhance the diversity of their student bodies and to be as inclusive as possible. Yet as our guests today have highlighted in recent research, in an odd twist of history, those same universities catering for an essentially male student body also provided special classes for their wives.To explore this further I am delighted to be joined by Allison Elias and Rolv Petter Amdam.Allison Elias is an assistant professor at University of Virginia Darden School of Business. Her research investigates historical and contemporary issues of gender and diversity in organizations, with a focus on the influence of social movements on corporate practices. Allison’s forthcoming book charts the trajectory of modern feminism at work illuminating the failures of equality-based frameworks and merit-based human resource management practices. Rolv Petter Storvik Amdam is a Professor of Business History at BI Norwegian Business School and was previously dean of BI’s executive programmes. His research and publications focus on a range of areas including • Business education and career development• International development of executive education* Internationalization procesess* Globalization and industrial clusters, focusing on the maritime industryThe article referred to is available here: https://journals.aom.org/doi/abs/10.5465/amle.2020.0129You can find out more about Allison and Rolv on their respective homepages:https://www.darden.virginia.edu/faculty-research/directory/allison-eliashttps://www.bi.edu/about-bi/employees/department-of-strategy-and-entrepeneurship2/rolv-petter-storvik-amdam/

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