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NGERS A AACSB's 2012–2013 board chair Joseph DiAngelo emphasizes that, in an increasingly diverse market, the association must embrace innovation to help business schools worldwide reach the top of their games. BY JOSEPH DIANGELO s a former baseball coach, I like to draw this analogy: Putting together a faculty is like putting together a baseball team. Baseball coaches can't build great teams with 25 pitchers—they also need skilled players in the outfield, in the infield, and behind the plate. Likewise, deans can't build strong business programs with professors who only conduct research or who only teach undergraduates. They also need faculty who are great at graduate-level instruction, student advising, corporate consulting, and community outreach. Too often, deans think that everyone on their teams should be good at everything. The problem? Those individuals are incred- ibly rare. Instead, deans need to look for people with different core skill sets and meld them into a cohesive unit. We can extend that analogy even further. Just as no single pro- fessor can be good at everything, neither can any single business school. No two business schools have the same priorities, combi- nation of talents, cultural contexts, or approaches to education. It takes the contributions of many different business schools to serve the diverse range of students around the world. BizEd September/October 2012 47 NICE ONE PRODUCTIONS/CORBIS/GLOW IMAGES