Revolution in Business Practices (archived)

Abstract

The U.S. Navy, like many large private-sector organizations, often finds that its new 'general management' executives have not been adequately prepared for the broad and complex decision arena that they now occupy. It is increasingly the case that successful senior military officers upon being assigned to top executive program management and policy-making assignments find that they are ill prepared in terms of knowledge or skills needed to succeed in those assignments. The private sector has long recognized this problem and finds ready solutions through high quality executive development programs offered by the top graduate schools of business.