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University of Chicago BoothSchool of Business
Flexibility and the Discipline-Based Approach
OVER THE COURSE of its history, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business had developed a discipline-based approach to business education. During the school’s 2007– 2008 curriculum review, Dean Edward A. (Ted) Snyder noted that although there was significant change under way at some other leading MBA programs, Chicago’s existing approach was unlikely to be seriously questioned. “Neither recruiters, nor students, nor alumni are calling for curricular change,” Snyder observed. “I would be shocked if the committee recommended major changes to our course requirements. We are happy with what we do, it is good for us, and it matches Chicago, our ...
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