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> How times have changed! Have they? What's changed, specifically, in Harvard's various programs in the last 118 years that lead you to your implied conclusion

> How times have changed! Have they? What's changed, specifically, in Harvard's various programs in the last 118 years that lead you to your implied conclusion that their business and economics curricula have worsened?

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treyd 2y ago
Business classes, especially at institutions like Harvard and Sloan, have shifted their focus dramatically towards finance and upper management concerns and away from real boots-on-ground business operations.
- washadjeffmad 2y ago
  A friend and MIT alum went back through Sloan for a foundation he felt he needed to assemble a venture around IP he'd developed. Approaching it again after, he told me effectively what you described - while he felt he got "executive training", after trying and failing, it didn't provide practical knowledge to build and manage a successful operation. Instead, he hopped in the helm of an existing company and has done well enough with it. It was superset training, in the end.
- notahacker 2y ago
  But half the questions here are less about ensuring competency to make decisions and more basic definitional stuff manual workers that didn't finish high school would presumably be expected to pick up after a couple of weeks on the job. Don't think we'd be raising standards if we dropped all the calculus and statistics knowledge requirements in a modern Econ course in favour of "name three web technologies" and "describe the difference between an Account Executive and and SDR"
  - Aeolun 2y ago
    I think you might get a more sensible response if you change it to: Describe the differences between the two primary web architectures and the pro’s and con’s of each. If you replace a good question with a bad one, regardless of the subject, you’ve made the exam worse. The problem being that econ people will be in positions later where having that knowledge matter.

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treyd 2y ago

Business classes, especially at institutions like Harvard and Sloan, have shifted their focus dramatically towards finance and upper management concerns and away from real boots-on-ground business operations.

washadjeffmad 2y ago
A friend and MIT alum went back through Sloan for a foundation he felt he needed to assemble a venture around IP he'd developed. Approaching it again after, he told me effectively what you described - while he felt he got "executive training", after trying and failing, it didn't provide practical knowledge to build and manage a successful operation. Instead, he hopped in the helm of an existing company and has done well enough with it. It was superset training, in the end.
notahacker 2y ago
But half the questions here are less about ensuring competency to make decisions and more basic definitional stuff manual workers that didn't finish high school would presumably be expected to pick up after a couple of weeks on the job. Don't think we'd be raising standards if we dropped all the calculus and statistics knowledge requirements in a modern Econ course in favour of "name three web technologies" and "describe the difference between an Account Executive and and SDR"
- Aeolun 2y ago
  I think you might get a more sensible response if you change it to: Describe the differences between the two primary web architectures and the pro’s and con’s of each. If you replace a good question with a bad one, regardless of the subject, you’ve made the exam worse. The problem being that econ people will be in positions later where having that knowledge matter.