Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard's way is the way you'd learn a foreign language if you were just thrown into the streets of Paris--it's like Berlitz," says Roman L. Weil, professor of accounting and director of the Institute of Professional Accounting at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. "I don't teach Berlitz. It's not merely how to get along. We want to go deeper than that--we want our people to be leaders in their profession...
...Chicago's Graduate School of Business, says the director of its MBA program, the choice rests with the professor, and not with curriculum administrators. "The faculty are free to teach in any way they feel is best to convey their material," says Joanne Reott. "We use a variety of approaches. Especially in the beginning, we rely on more analytical or theoretical preesentations--the faculty introduces the basic principles. In the upper level classes, though, more case studies are brought...
...rigidity of Harvard's use of the case method is not missed at other schools, such as the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and Chicago's B-School...
...Chicago," says Weil, "there is absolutely no attempt to coordinate the sections, whereas at Harvard it is absolutely forbidden to do anything different. There's a running joke that at the Harvard staff meetings, they don't just discuss what to talk about in class--they also tell you which blackboard to write...
That Harvard MBA's may have a less technical understanding of subjects such as finance and accounting than their counterparts elsewhere is by design. While the business schools of Chicago and Pittsburgh's Carnegie-Mellon University may train their accounting students to pass the Certified Public Accountant exam and marketing students to be consultants, the stated purpose of the B-School is to train managers. As a result, Harvard MBA's don't necessarily know all the intricacies of such financial operations; but they can efficiently oversee those...