Word: mba
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McKinney said while the program will draw most of its faculty from the Business School, its curriculum will differ substantially from the Business School's MBA program...
...ease transfers from department to department or school to school, the personnel office sponsors budget preparatory courses or basic accounting classes. "In some cases that is enough, but for other positions, you need an MBA," Cantor says...
...Belief in the case method won't be altered," Timothy W. Armour, assistant dean of the MBA program, says, adding he doesn't think Bok expected the school to change the case method much...
...shadow of Stanford's business school looming large over Harvard's prestige may also have motivated Bok's report. MBA magazine has granted Stanford a higher academic rating than Harvard in its last two polls on business school quality. Although such polls always raise doubts, some of Bok's suggestions for the B-School--especially his eagerness for the school to do more research--hint that Bok may want Harvard to move a few degrees away from its management-training emphasis toward Stanford's academic research approach. Although Stanford's reputation for academic excellence has improved in recent years, Harvard...
...their work. A recent faculty report speaks of "the oral tradition that surrounds the program an involves the passing of program lore from one faculty member to another and from one student to another." "Case materials" are used in 80 per cent of the required courses in the MBA program. "We try to teach students not subjects and techniques but attitudes and habits, "James L. Heskitt, chairman of the program, says. Students trained in the case method get into the habit of making three decisions a day, and they carry the habit to the $25,000-a-year average starting...