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Over the past year, the Business School, which regularly updates its curriculum, created new courses on managing modern financial firms and understanding the history of financial crises, according to Joseph L. Badaracco, senior associate dean and chair of the MBA program...
Though several faculty committees are still discussing preliminary ideas for curricular reform, Badaracco says that they may recommend allowing for more flexibility in the final term of the MBA program...
With curricular reform planning underway, faculty say they hope students will reap benefits of a more relevant MBA education...
...example, says M. Scott Daubin, a former Student Association co-president and a member of the MBA Class of 2010, Light injected additional funding for the MBA Career and Professional Development Office to help soon-to-be MBAs find employment in a much-weakened job market and allocated a larger budget to subsidize the salaries of new graduates who chose positions at non-profits...
...Light had] been at the school for so long he really understood the MBA perspective,” Daubin says. “I think he did a good job of trimming some costs, but also investing in areas that were especially important...