Under a pilot scheme due to begin next autumn, heads will be invited to inspect each other's schools, drawing on their knowledge of school management and leadership in a new kind of peer-review system.

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What surprised me was most of the b-school academics had no general management knowledge or experience or skills.

FORBES: Getting Down To Business In The Business Schools

B2B pioneers envisaged them, it is now clear that independent exchanges such as DoveBid depend crucially on deep industry knowledge and must add value with services that facilitate transactions, says Hal Varian of the School of Information Management and Systems at the University of California, Berkeley.

ECONOMIST: If you think B2B marketplaces are dead, read on