Word: curriculum
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Case studies in their paper form, long the stand-by of the HBS curriculum, have been a way to give students the opportunity to simulate real-world problems through reading and class discussion. Recently, these case studies have been put on-line or on CD-ROMs making the simulation far more real by requiring increased interaction and participation by the student...
Computers have long been important in the HBS curriculum, but they are now almost indispensable. Nearly all exams are taken on computers and e-mail has become universal. Plans are even underway to extend permanent e-mail addresses to all HBS alums...
According to Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68, HBS's efforts have benefited from the structure of the school itself. HBS has a far more centralized curriculum than any of the other schools, Lewis says, and the range of course subjects is not nearly so broad as in many of the other faculties...
...some sort of Indian spiritual healer named Deepak Chopra. Fuerst, a practicing internist in Hollywood, Florida, from 1955 to 1986, did his med school at the University of Pennsylvania, and Chopra's thesis--that the human spirit and the human body are intimately connected--had not been on the curriculum. He skimmed the book and put it aside...
...Particularly in areas affecting the curriculum and the faculty, the leadership should come from the deans and the central administration," Landers said...