Harvard offers pre-MBA courses on-line

by Rishi Mon Jun 02, 2014 1:28 pm

But Harvard Business School's online education program is not cheap, simple or open. It could be said that the school opted for the Porter theory. Called HBX, the program will make its debut June 11 and has its own admissions office. Instead of attacking the school's traditional MBA and executive education programs - which produced revenue of $108 million and $146 million in 2013 - it aims to create an entirely new segment of business education: the pre-MBA. "Instead of having two big product lines, we may be on the verge of inventing a third," said Jay W. Lorsch, who has taught at Harvard Business School since 1964.

Starting last month, HBX has been quietly admitting several hundred students, mostly undergraduate sophomores, juniors and seniors, into a program called Credential of Readiness, or CORe. The program includes three online courses - accounting, analytics and economics for managers - that are intended to give liberal arts students fluency in what it calls "the language of business." Students have nine weeks to complete all three courses, and tuition is $1,500. Only those with a high level of class participation will be invited to take a three-hour final exam at a testing center.

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by Marathadi-Saamiyaar Mon Jun 02, 2014 1:35 pm

Rishi wrote: But Harvard Business School's online education program is not cheap, simple or open. It could be said that the school opted for the Porter theory. Called HBX, the program will make its debut June 11 and has its own admissions office. Instead of attacking the school's traditional MBA and executive education programs - which produced revenue of $108 million and $146 million in 2013 - it aims to create an entirely new segment of business education: the pre-MBA. "Instead of having two big product lines, we may be on the verge of inventing a third," said Jay W. Lorsch, who has taught at Harvard Business School since 1964.

Starting last month, HBX has been quietly admitting several hundred students, mostly undergraduate sophomores, juniors and seniors, into a program called Credential of Readiness, or CORe. The program includes three online courses - accounting, analytics and economics for managers - that are intended to give liberal arts students fluency in what it calls "the language of business." Students have nine weeks to complete all three courses, and tuition is $1,500. Only those with a high level of class participation will be invited to take a three-hour final exam at a testing center.

http://profit.ndtv.com/news/life-and-careers/article-business-school-disrupted-390045?pfrom=home-business

It is high time this is started. After all, the (retd) nigerian generals, online-looters, online-russian Svetlanas need to upgrade their skills.

Harvard offers pre-MBA courses on-line

Harvard offers pre-MBA courses on-line

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