It is an exciting era for design management education. The field has gone mainstream. Whereas, in the past, we have profiled courses and professional seminars, we now share an overview of innovative graduate degree and dual-degree programs in design and business schools, many complemented with internships and hands-on corporate experience. Moreover, this is a global reality, with a growing call for design management expertise from companies, as well as from design firms. Within this context, a particular concern is building effective interdisciplinary teams, a challenge addressed academically with special courses and projects.

Articles

Design Management Comes of Age
Thomas Walton

Educating Designers for Broad Roles in Organizations 
Chris Conley

Design Management: Future Forward
Mary McBride

Foolproof Design Management Education
Efstathios G. Kefallonitis

Educating a Nation: The Swedish National Design Program
Ulla Johansson and Patrik Persson

Managing the Business of Design
Christina Onesirosan-Martinez

Tracking Major Trends in Design Management Studies
Yu-Jin Kim and Kyung-Won Chung

Launching the Dual Degree: Creating Business-Savvy Designers
Jeremy Alexis and Zia Hassan

Designing the MBA of Tomorrow
Sandra Shield and Richard Coughlan

Design Management Education at the Delft University of Technology
Ulla Johansson and Patrik Persson

Teaching Business Design
Giovanni Lanzone

Learning to Work in Teams
Christopher Vice

Managing Complexity: The Executive MBA at the Zollverein School
Andrej Kupetz, Martin Mangold, and Miriam Selbeck

TED: Multidisciplinary Team Projects Crossing University Borders
Lisbeth Svengren Holm