{"id":26213,"date":"2014-11-10T13:52:13","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T20:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/?p=26213"},"modified":"2014-11-16T15:17:59","modified_gmt":"2014-11-16T22:17:59","slug":"5-key-imd-officials-resign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/5-key-imd-officials-resign\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Key IMD Officials Resign"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Click<\/a>In a letter last week, Ralf Boscheck, the Program Director of the IMD MBA Program<\/a>, announced that the school has \u201cdecided to realign the MBA Office with our new MBA program starting in January 2015.\u201d He goes on to bid farewell to five long-time officials of the program, Claire Lecoq, Lisa Piguet, Janet Shaner, Marine Frey, and Simone Kuhn.<\/p>\n

Their resignations follows a controversial move by IMD to begin reporting career stats every three years, rather than annually. After the new approach was announced, there was an uproar among alumni and applicants, especially when it became clear that this change covered up deteriorating salary and placement results for MBA graduates. The school explains, as noted in a September Poets & Quants <\/em>article<\/a>, that the declining salary stats are due to other changes made by the program, in particular a smaller class size, and currency fluctuations.<\/p>\n

In a second Poets & Quants <\/em>article<\/a> chronicling the IMD saga, Boscheck says, \u201cI would like to sidestep the commoditization of this industry and have a program that prepares 90 selected students not having to worry about being compared to other MBA programs that are less differentiated. These are not typical MBAs. They are junior executives and you can learn with them. It\u2019s a senior, more experienced group. This school is an executive development network. We have 8,000 executives every year on campus and the trick is to bring the MBA program back into the core of the school and leverage what we have best which is our executive development.\u201d<\/p>\n

I was interviewed for the most recent Poets & Quants<\/em> article<\/a> on the IMD shake-up. My take on the turmoil:<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know who was behind that decision, but I do know there is a new program director and he probably wants \u2018his people\u2019 in positions that affect recruiting both of new students and potential employers. Either the old staff wasn\u2019t comfortable with his approach and resigned, or they saw handwriting on the wall about their futures and resigned.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think IMD is going to struggle until the changes the new program director wants to make are implemented and prove popular with recruiters and students. If the changes are successful and the results are realized quickly, IMD will bounce back stronger than ever.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf the changes prove unpopular or the results take a long time to be seen, IMD will decline until the new program director is replaced. In the latter case, its reputation and brand will be weakened.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\"Linda<\/a>By Linda Abraham<\/a>, president and founder of Accepted.com and co-author of the new, definitive book on MBA admissions, <\/em>MBA Admission for Smarties: The No-Nonsense Guide to Acceptance at Top Business Schools<\/a>.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u2022 Best MBA Programs: A Guide to Selecting the Right Ones<\/a>
\n\u2022 2014 Virtual Panel: Exploring European B-Schools<\/a>
\n\u2022 Business and Science Meet: Insights of an IMD Grad and Former Medical Doctor<\/a><\/p>\n

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This article originally appeared on the Accepted Admissions Consulting Blog<\/a>, the official blog of Accepted.com.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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