The world, they say, is flat. And in flat world, careers are defined not exculsively by national boundaries. You will interact, certainly indirectly and with growing certainty, directly with co-workers from far flung corners. This demands new aculturation and language skills, as well as skills for the 21st century. What has been part and parcel of the undergraduate experience for some time now, has hit graduate school:
Yale this year became the first major university to require its MBA students to study abroad. The Ivy League school also replaced finance and marketing courses that have been the mainstay of business education for 50 years with courses structured to mimic the way business managers operate. “We are at the beginning of what over the next five years will be tremendous change in business education,” said Joel M. Podolny, dean of Yale’s School of Management. The changes, implemented this fall, come after criticism in scholarly articles that MBA programs have failed to teach useful skills. Other business schools are implementing or considering similar plans.Yale MBAs to study abroad in nod to marketplace - CNN.com:
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