{"id":19730,"date":"2013-07-17T12:05:10","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T19:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/?p=19730"},"modified":"2013-07-17T12:05:10","modified_gmt":"2013-07-17T19:05:10","slug":"harvard-introduces-mba-curriculum-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/harvard-introduces-mba-curriculum-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvard Introduces MBA Curriculum Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.accepted.com\/2013\/06\/13\/harvard-business-school-2014-mba-application-tips\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-19731\" alt=\"Harvard hbs\" src=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Harvard-hbs.jpg\" width=\"223\" height=\"156\" \/><\/a>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/articles\/2013-07-03\/harvard-begins-mba-curriculum-overhaul#r=bus-ls\" target=\"_blank\">recent <em>Businessweek<\/em> article<\/a> discusses the changes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.accepted.com\/mba\/HarvardHBS.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Harvard Business School<\/a> plans on making to its curriculum over the next three years, including an increase in second-year electives and case studies.<\/p>\n<p>Two years ago HBS overhauled its first-year curriculum; the current changes will mostly affect second-year students. This curriculum overhaul will be funded in part by a recent $10 million gift from the family of the late William Connell (HBS 1963).<\/p>\n<p>Dean Nitin Nohria explains: \u201cThis new donation\u2026provides us with the financial support we need to enhance our second-year curriculum and make it a deeper, more cohesive, and more innovative experience that will have a life-long impact on our students.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Interested in applying the Harvard Business School? 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Accepted.com has guided thousands of applicants to acceptances at top MBA programs since 1994 \u2013 we know what works and what doesn't, so <a href=\"https:\/\/www.accepted.com\/contactus.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">contact us<\/a> to get started now!<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: #1f497d;\"><em>This article originally appeared on the <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.accepted.com\/2013\/07\/17\/harvard-introduces-mba-curriculum-changes\/\" target=\"_blank\">Accepted Admissions Consulting Blog<\/a>, the official blog of Accepted.com.<\/em> <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent Businessweek article discusses the changes Harvard Business School plans on making to its curriculum over the next three years, including an increase in second-year electives and case studies.&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6,1,939,775,113],"tags":[798,100,796,802,49,119,800],"class_list":["post-19730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mba","category-current-events","category-uncategorized","category-accepted","category-admission-consultants","category-applications","tag-applying-to-hbs","tag-harvard","tag-harvard-business-school","tag-harvard-business-school-admissions","tag-harvard-hbs","tag-hbs","tag-hbs-admissions","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19730"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19733,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19730\/revisions\/19733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}