Rethinking the MBA

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Harvard Business School

General Management and the Focuson Practice

2008 MARKED THE 100th anniversary of the Boston-based Harvard Business School (HBS). Planning for the centennial had provided an opportunity to reflect on the past and, more important, look ahead to the future. Noted Dean Jay Light:

The strategy for our MBA program has, by some accounts, looked remarkably consistent: offer a two-year program with a focus on general management taught primarily via the active engagement of our students in classroom discussions of complex, ambiguous, business cases. Yet fundamental elements of the program have been changing dramatically: our students are more diverse, our faculty members are coming from a wider range of disciplinary backgrounds, ...