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Columbia Business School Launches Enhanced Core Curriculum
Columbia Business School unveiled a redesigned MBA curriculum this fall. The program mixes a required core that provides essential knowledge with options that allow students to tailor requirements according to career interests. Required foundational courses include accounting, corporate finance, leadership, marketing, operations, statistics, and strategy. In addition, students have the flexibility to pick one course from each of three broad categories—organizations, performance, and markets—and may take additional courses as electives.
Another feature of the new curriculum is a non-credit corporate governance module, designed to enhance students’ understanding of their duties and responsibilities as managers. The module starts during first-year orientation with readings and class sessions, and will conclude with a capstone session in the final term of the MBA program.
In another curricular development, Purdue University Calumet has developed a new curriculum for its Saturday MBA for Executives program. In addition to technical and analytical skills, the revised program also emphasizes training in such areas as communication, negotiation, and team building, and such topics as international business and ethics and corporate governance.
Sloan, Simmons Adopt Values-Based Ethics Training
As reported August 6 in the Financial Times, both the Sloan School of Management at MIT and Simmons College have adopted "Giving Voice to Values," an approach to teaching ethics that eschews a case study approach in favor of "real-world" applications. "Giving Voice to Values" helps students develop the cognitive arguments, communication skills, personal comfort and commitment necessary to voice their values in the workplace. Incoming MBA students at MIT explore the program as part of their orientation, while Simmons offers the training in courses for both MBA students and undergraduates. To date, elements of the program have been adopted at three dozen business schools.
Today’s Soldier is Tomorrow’s Financial Planner
California Lutheran University has found a successful way to attract students now in the military. The university’s online MBA program in financial planning, offered through its Institute of Finance, enrolls 15 students who are currently deployed in military postings in England, Germany, Iraq, Italy, and elsewhere. Primarily serving personnel who hold an officer’s rank, the program helps enrollees prepare for a transition into the financial services industry once they complete their military career.
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