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More than a river separates Harvard Law School (HLS) and Harvard Business School (HBS), so well-intentioned discussions about making them neighbors in Allston are not enough to encourage the two graduate schools to work together in a collegial manner. The barriers to interdisciplinary work have little to do with site location. They need to be addressed by policy changes at the University level...
...HBS start on different dates and have different vacation weeks and different daily blocks for classes. These calendar conflicts create huge problems for students trying to take courses in both schools; these problems could be resolved by a uniform calendar established by the University for all of its graduate schools...
...addition, neither HLS nor HBS generally allows cross-registration in any of its required courses for first-year students. This is a substantial barrier to interdisciplinary work since many advanced courses at both schools assume knowledge of material taught in the first-year courses. Moreover, individual professors have sometimes not permitted cross-registration in their advanced courses...
Only students in the joint J.D.-M.B.A. program are allowed to take first-year courses in both schools. Yet this program is really a mechanism for saving tuition and time in obtaining two graduate degrees, rather than a real interdisciplinary exercise. Students must gain admission separately to HLS and HBS, which then offer no special set of truly joint courses for the J.D.-M.B.A. program...
...critical constraints on joint courses is the different approaches to course materials in the two schools. HBS focuses primarily on case studies, though some HBS case studies have notes attached and some HBS courses assign supplemental readings. The advanced courses at HLS use more textual material as well as judicial opinions and statutes. While case studies provide very helpful insights into the application of substantive principles, it is quite difficult to infer those principles from case studies in technical areas like accounting...