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Date Posted: 02:34:12 03/07/02 Thu
Author: Sherry Stautzenbach
Subject: RE: MBA Twn Meeting

I would appreciate it if someone who may have attended the recent MBA community meetings would briefly recap any insights that may have taken place.

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[> Re: MBA Twn Meeting -- William Clark, 21:22:19 03/07/02 Thu

The town hall meetings went very well. The discussion was very substantive, and I doubt I can cover everything that was discussed, but the following are the "highlights":

Hopkins appears to be pursuing a "Centers of Excellence" model that entails several niche MBA & MS/ITS programs, many of which are tailored to one or more of the 4 campuses:

Baltimore: Increased focus on the Business of Medicine program, and a Joint MBA/MPH degree is being fianlized with the Bloomberg School of Public Health. A Real Estate/Seniors Housing concentration is also being discussed (Berman Institute?) This will be the only such program in the US, with a focus on international Srs Housing as well. Biometrics and Medical Informatics, and Knowledge Management programs are also being planned.

Columbia Center: Marketing programs seem to be popular on this campus, with Occuaptional Development & HR being another area of opportunity. Of course the traditional MBA/Mgmt degree is popular as well.

Washignton DC: Finance is a very popular MBA concentration on this campus, and JHU wants to focus on an International Business concentration for the DC campus as well. The unique Center for Urban Entrepreneurship and Minority Leadership under the direction of Dr. James Calvin was discussed some as well. I beleive SAIS and SPSBE are negotiating on a joint MA/MBA program (the first forray into a full-time MBA program). This will be a 3-yr program and applicants will need to be accepted from both the SAIS and SPSBE schools, possibly a 2003 timeline. It was also mentioned that JHU will soon begin a fund raiser campaign to expand the DC facility as well.

Montgomery County: JHU will Continue to focus on the MBA/concentration in ITS and the MS/ITS programs due to the campuses strategic location in the heart of the east coast "IT corridor." There was some breif discussion about negotiations about joint SPSBE courses with the Engineering school, etc. The new INFOSEC concentration in Information Technology Security should be a success, and Dean De La Vina feels that telecommunication security issues will become particually important in the wake of 9/11, etc.

SPSBE hopes to hire 5 more full-time facilty this year, and the most recent addition to faculty is Dr. Lindsey Thompson, who will teach Business Ethics (or how not to Enronize your company..;-)

JHU has "chosen not to be accredited at this point", but they are evaluating two parallel tracks to accredidation of the MBA program. The European accredidation format is being evaluated, and it appears the Hopkins format may be similar to the European model (blended faculty, etc). Secondly, the AACSB organization is currently re-evaluating its entire accredidation critera to better fit the directions of MBA programs across the US, and it appears they are moving more towards an "output metrics" criteria rather than "input metrics" criteria. There will be draft proposals with a comment period this spring/summer, with final changes to be published-probably in the fall. I would suspect Hopkins will re-evaluate the new AACSB metrics at that time and move forward when applicable. I and many other students were excited to hear about these developments, but I also think we will also need to be patient as these things take a few years to sort-out. (The JHU MBA program was launched only 30 months ago, but a lot of progress is taking place under the direction of Dean Lynda De La Vina)

Dr. De La Vina also briefly discussed JHU's marketshare of the MBA programs in this geographic area, and she shared some favorable data regarding GMAT scores of JHU students relative to the other local institutions (however this GMAT data was internal info only, not for puplication).

Overall, the town hall meetings were informative, and the message was that Johns Hopkins has several comparative/ competitive advantages, and the institution is in the process of developing several highly unique and important business and technlogy programs. I would encourage everybody to become involved in the school. I am a member of the fledging MBAA student org, so please feel free to call or email me with questions or comments. 410-933-1315.


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[> [> Re: MBA Twn Meeting -- Vijaya, 14:17:50 03/25/02 Mon

Hi, When you say that Hopkins choose not to get accredited , itsounds a little disturbibg to me. What does it mean to students like us , when it comes to selling ourselves in the job market after graduation? Will the odds of being rejected be against us as compared to the graduates of other accredited universities?


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[> [> Re: MBA Twn Meeting -- RTR, 16:44:03 03/10/03 Mon

GMAT scores are public:
http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/02/part_time_profiles/johnshopkins.htm


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