Students and companies have changing expectations for executive MBA programs. How should business schools respond?
Students and companies have changing expectations for executive MBA programs. How should business schools respond?
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Students and companies have changing expectations for executive MBA programs. How should business schools respond?
Students and companies have changing expectations for executive MBA programs. How should business schools respond?
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4 Comments On: Rethinking Executive MBA Programs
Its true that students are becoming more demanding in terms of teaching material and lecturing style. EMBA program are internationally becoming popular.
In respect to questionable rigor, you fail to look at another, more prevailing perspective. Considering the Exec MBA involves academic study of between 20-22 months, holding a job, considerable amount of local/international travel and learning the same material in a shorter timeframe as the Fulltime MBA’s, it can be even more challenging. Perhaps your article could be bolstered by concrete evidence of curriculum differences in the different formats of MBA’s in respect to “MBA Lite”
Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode has introduced cafeteria approach for eMBA programme, whereby student can go for full two years course or can only go for specialization, Viz, Strategy, Operations, Mkt, Finance, etc through online interactive learning method through Hughes platform, it has benefited many working people like me to complete management studies from one of the premier B school in India.
Such offering has enabled the institute to generate revenue & overcome the capacity constrain in the campus and benefited the students (working people) to complete the course staying in their city of employment and were required to visit campus only for seven days / semester and rest through Interactive Distance Learning.
From some guest lectures I have given to students in EMBA what I invariably get as feedback is relevance and practical links to academic theory. In many cases students who are industry practitioners say they get bored with theory that can be read anywhere. If I pay so much money for an EMBA course I will demand a course which can give me that strategic and operational mindset to change and do things. Just learning about strategy with out knowing execution is waste of their precious time away from work and family.
I would suggest the program should deliver an expected value proposition from students and if some students need some thing special such as how to be a global and local manager when posted as an expatriate overseas, this mentor-ship should start during the program either through the school or through some specialists who have gone through this experience.
If it’s another course to get a jump or a grade this is not sustainable in today’s context when we see the public start to express their dissatisfaction on how corporations behave. need a serious thought!
Dr Rajah Kumar