{"id":828,"date":"2010-07-20T08:59:52","date_gmt":"2010-07-20T13:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.manhattangmat.com\/blog\/?p=828"},"modified":"2019-09-05T16:25:05","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T16:25:05","slug":"mba-curriculums-get-creative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gmat\/blog\/mba-curriculums-get-creative\/","title":{"rendered":"MBA Curriculums Get Creative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MBA programs are getting creative with their classes these days. Two recent trend pieces highlight schools&#8217; new offerings that aren&#8217;t exactly traditional courses like accounting or stats.<\/p>\n<p>First, the <em><a href=\"\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/2\/cfb646c4-90ed-11df-85a7-00144feab49a,dwp_uuid=02e16f4a-46f9-11da-b8e5-00000e2511c8.html\" target=\"_blank\">Financial Times<\/a><\/em> spotlights the growing number of b-school classes on practicing philanthropy,\u009d which aim to teach future titans of industry how to give wisely. They teach how to measure the impact of one&#8217;s donation and\u00a0smart practices like site visits to non-profits.   At some point in their lives, most of these students will either be a corporate donor or an individual donor and my class teaches them how to do philanthropy effectively,\u009d says Boston University School of Management professor Kristen McCormack. Most general MBAs that I&#8217;ve taught marvel that there is this world out there that they never thought existed, and they are surprised by how hard it is to give away money.\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, other b-schools are attempting to teach the ineffable skills of leadership. And according to <em><a href=\"\/\/www.usnews.com\/articles\/education\/best-business-schools\/2010\/07\/19\/unique-mba-programs-build-leadership-skills.html?PageNr=1\" target=\"_blank\">US News and World Report<\/a><\/em>, they&#8217;re adopting some creative strategies. UVA&#8217;s Darden School of Business is using the performing arts to train future managers, with a course called &#8220;Leadership and Theatre: Ethics, Innovations and Creativity.&#8221; Instructor Ed Freeman explains actors have to know themselves before they can persuade anyone to believe in their characters. &#8220;I think being authentic, knowing who you are and working on trying to be more in touch with your emotions, that&#8217;s what leadership&#8217;s about,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<p>More reasons to get excited about business school!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MBA programs are getting creative with their classes these days. Two recent trend pieces highlight schools&#8217; new offerings that aren&#8217;t exactly traditional courses like accounting or stats. First, the Financial Times spotlights the growing number of b-school classes on practicing philanthropy,\u009d which aim to teach future titans of industry how to give wisely. They teach [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mba-info"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gmat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gmat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gmat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gmat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gmat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gmat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17953,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gmat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions\/17953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gmat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gmat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gmat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gmat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}