Brian Mahoney, Managing Partner of Percept Research, attended the 2013 MBA Roundtable Curricular Innovation Symposium from November 7-8, 2013. The MBA Roundtable serves as a catalyst for thought leadership on MBA curricular design and innovation. The annual symposium is designed as a forum for business school leaders to share and generate ideas that lead to improved MBA curricular offerings.
The Symposium was hosted by Fisher College of Business at The Ohio State University. Anne Ferrante, MBA Roundtable Executive Director, welcomed MBA faculty and administrators from across the globe to the conference.
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Anne Ferrante (MBA Roundtable Executive Director) opens the Symposium
The Symposium sessions were focused on the ways business schools are building interdisciplinary education via joint and dual degree MBA programs, cross-university partnerships, and collaborative experiential labs.
MBA administrative and faculty attendees explored ways to identify and evaluate interdisciplinary opportunities, and find solutions to the inevitable challenges that arise when working to implement these initiatives.
MBA Roundtable members collaborated through engaged dialogue and small group discussions to discuss approaches that work best given myriad program formats, available resources, and student motivations.
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Cathy Shenoy (Kansas MBA) prompts group discussion
Through panel presentations, expert speakers, and topic-based exchanges, the attendees discussed the curricular and co-curricular approaches schools are taking to build more cross-disciplinary courses, dual degrees, and experiences with partners from outside traditional business disciplines.
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Joe Fox (Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis) describes his team's Shark Tank brainstorming MBA program
The 2014 Symposium will be hosted by IE Business School in Madrid, Spain while the next event sponsored by the MBA Roundtable is the annual Leadership Conference on January 21-24, 2014 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Conference content is developed each year through the advice and counsel of a select group of deans and directors from MBA Roundtable and GMAC member schools.
As the research partner to the MBA Roundtable, Percept Research offers significant first-year discounts to members that participate in the firm's MBA Lifecycle Survey Suite.
Percept Research also offers custom higher education market research and consulting engagements to provide guidance for business school leaders in areas such as increasing operational efficiency and containing costs, improving recruiting and retention, and developing new degree programs.
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