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Ten deans take a look back at management education over the last ten years and offer their visions for the industry in the years to come. trends that shaped "WHAT KEEPS DEANS AWAKE AT NIGHT?" That was one of the ques- tions we wanted to answer with the premiere issue of BizEd back in November 2001. In the article "The Challenge of Change," we noted that deans were worried about finding and retaining faculty, effec- tively implementing tech- nology, globalizing their programs, and keeping up with the needs of a changing international business environment. We had a pretty good hunch that some of those concerns would be the same ones facing business schools ten years later. But to find out how those issues have evolved, or how they have been replaced by new ones, we approached ten individuals who have been deans ten years or longer and asked for their thoughts on key aspects of management education. Their wide- ranging essays consider what has occurred— and what has yet to be implemented—in areas as familiar as globalization and technology, and as crucial as accreditation and program design. They take a look at how women have fared in the upper echelons of management education, how schools have served minority students, and how business programs have dealt with issues of ethics, honor, and social responsibility. Some of these deans also muse on what the next ten years might hold, and how change will mark the next decade as indelibly as it did the last. But there's one thing they all agree on: The key to the future of management educa- tion is understanding its past. BizEd November/December 2011 23