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Business Schools and the future: an interview with Daneel van Lill

Published on February 4, 2020   32 min
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Interviewer: Professor Van Lill, thank you very much for sparing the time today. What I'd like to do as we are in this series of interviews with deans of business schools is to examine what the objectives of business schools are at the current time, and very importantly, how, in management terms, they're seeking to deliver on those objectives. I notice that you describe yourself as a teacher at heart and have a specialism in change and management development. Perhaps to provide some context, you could just describe the background and how you've come to be the dean of business studies at your university. Prof. Van Lill: Thank you Neil. First of all, I think the brief was quite clear, and so I'm looking forward to having a conversation with you. My own background is, I was actually originally specialized in food science and then I worked in factories across the world. I was responsible for working with teams of biologists, geneticists, production agencies, and eventually, at the end of the day, how many per second came out in the other side of the factory to different parts of the world. So in essence, what we call today a value chain. Then I got tired of traveling, we wanted to settle down. So then I applied for a position back at one of the universities here in South Africa and I was under the impression that I'm being interviewed to establish a new Department of Food Science. In the course of the interview, I actually realized, well, this was 1994, and tourism is about to boom in South Africa,

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