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Academic Inertia: The innovator’s dilemma in higher education

  • FormatMichelle R. Weise, PhD
  • FormatAugust 12, 2014
  • Education
  • Postsecondary Business Models

Michelle R. Weise discusses the innovator’s dilemma and how traditional colleges and universities are fundamentally constrained by their multiple business models and therefore cannot respond to changes within the system of higher education. Weise and Clayton M. Christensen elaborate on this topic of academic inertia in their latest mini-book, Hire Education: Mastery, Modularization, and the Workforce Revolution.

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    Michelle R. Weise, PhD

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