Academic

Student/Customers

By Gordon Smith, Christine, Hurt, Vic Fleischer, Fred Tung, Lisa Fairfax, David Zaring

We love our student/consumers at Wharton - indeed, we are in the midst of a curriculum review that we hope will make our affection for them even more clear.  Just so those of you who aren't business school people know, there's a debate in our corner of academia over whether the ideal MBA curriculum ought to be mostly mandatory - that's the Harvard model - or elective - that's the new Chicago model.  The Times has put up an interesting debate on whether business school enrolees ought to be treated as students or customers, and the Chicago dean gets to make his pitch for electivity over there.  Adam Benforado has some useful thoughts on the law school implications here.

Full post as published by Conglomerate on January 07, 2010 (boomark / email).