As the economic crisis brings job and salary cuts across the region, more managers are looking to upgrade their skills at business schools. That demand carries a big responsibility, especially for those who design MBA programs. As Victor Ordo?ez, Ph.D., director of Bangkok-based UNESCO Principal Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific observes, they ha.ve a fundamentally changed role: from gatherers of information, they must now be strategic sorters of the a.vailable information.