GLOBAL: Professors take academic road to the East

A decade ago most aspiring business professors headed West, to the US. These days they are heading in the opposite direction: Asia is becoming the hotspot for the top management thinkers, writes Della Bradshaw for the Financial Times.

The past year has seen some of the world's most distinguished business professors move to Asia - China and Singapore in particular. One obvious reason is the growth in Asian economies, says John Quelch, the Harvard marketing professor and former dean at London Business School, who became dean at Ceibs in Shanghai in January. "The relative growth trajectories favour Asia rather than Europe and the US. In the US, recent political intransigence is adding to the feeling of malaise."

In particular, economic growth is coupled with a real willingness to invest in high quality education, he adds.
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