With the global economic crisis shifting many people's ideas of what qualifies as a good business culture, some business schools have been shifting their approach in the classroom. Forbes's Terra Stanley highlights ten innovative business school classes, including one from a brand new business school at a top-flight university:
Carey Business School at Johns Hopkins University, which will welcome its first class this August, is a prime example. "We seek to prepare people for the world we haven't seen yet," says Dean Yash Gupta. He compares the new program's approach to making Jell-O: teaching students to take different shapes in an unforeseeable future.
Consider one course at Carey, called Innovation for Humanity. This new program will send students to a developing nation, such as Rwanda, Peru, Kenya or India, where they will study infrastructural weaknesses in water, energy and health systems, then work with scientists and citizens to develop solutions. The goal: to understand how to build sustainable businesses in developing markets.
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Posted
08-10-2010 9:02 AM
by
Graham Griffith