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Michigan Ross Dean Chats With Harvard Business Review About the Future of the MBA

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The pace of change in business seems to increase every year. What works today won’t work in the near future.

The same is true for business education. The old model of immersing yourself in the classroom for two years doesn’t cut it in the digital age. Scott DeRue, Edward J. Frey Dean of Business and Stephen M. Ross Professor of Business, talks about the future of the MBA on the Harvard Business Review IdeaCast.

DeRue highlights a number of innovations at Ross and other business schools and explains how educators can best prepare students for the modern business world.

“There are schools around the globe that I think are redefining the standard of business education by bringing the learning together with the doing in really powerful ways,” he says.

Listen to the podcast:

The Future of MBA Education

Scott DeRue, the dean of University of Michigan's Ross School of Business, says the old model of business school education is gone. It's no longer good enough to sequester yourself on campus for two years before heading out into the world of commerce.