Business. Video. Siftables. Stimulant. Do_matic: Business Design: The curriculum of 2012. Tomorrow's B-School? It Might Be A D-School. Just a few days into an executive management course at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business, Margaret J.
Miller, a senior economist at the World Bank, found herself sitting at a table wearing heavy leather gloves and vision-obscuring glasses, trying to figure out how a person with a physical impairment might experience the process of wrapping a gift. The goal of the five-day Managing Teams for Innovation & Success (MTIS) course: to see the experience through new eyes. "With a few basic tools -- just craft materials, really -- people could actually start to think about things from different points of view and be creative," says Miller.