How the pandemic has changed MBA content
Danielle Braff, from Crain’s Chicago Business, emailed me some questions about the effect of the pandemic on business schools’ MBA content. We discussed my experience and those of many of my colleagues IE Business School. On Sunday, she published her article: “The business world has changed. MBA curriculums have responded”, quoting me.
It’s no surprise that the content of MBA courses has been updated to reflect the changes that society has undergone during a pandemic that has turned the world of work upside down: new content has been designed for students who will graduate to work in a highly dynamic management environment, with methodologies that always seek to rely on issues in the real world.
Thus, in addition to including everything related to the management of work in distributed environments, which students experienced for themselves during lockdown and which, logically, must be furnished with the appropriate management methodologies and tools, or to encourage discussion on the future of labor relations, there are any number of topics that the pandemic has made more relevant, ranging from the climate emergency and decarbonization to the supply chain crisis, through issues such as crisis response, etc.
As a rule, the vast majority of courses in an MBA tend to incorporate, at a minimum, around 15% of new content or…
