Which MBA?

Rolling news from the business campuses

Peter Tufano has been named as the new dean at Oxford University’s Saïd Business School. The 53-year-old Harvard professor will succeed Colin Mayer, the current dean, in July next year.

MBA students at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School are to receive free executive education classes throughout their careers, the school has revealed. Wharton plans to offer its alumni tuition-free access to an executive programme every seven years of their working life. The announcement came as the school’s faculty approved a new MBA curriculum which will allow its 1,600 students more scope to customise their programmes. It will also mean more emphasis in areas such as leadership through self-analysis and ethical and legal responsibility in business. 

ESSEC, a French business school, is relaunching its MBA. The school has reclassified its original MBA, which didn’t require students to have significant work experience, as a Master’s in Management. In contrast, students on the new MBA will be expected to have around six years’ professional know-how. The school will welcome its first intake of up to 50 students in September 2011.

John Quelch, former dean of London Business School and famed Harvard professor, is to be the new dean of China Europe International Business School (CEIBS). Mr Quelch will replace Ralph Cremer, who has held the position for the last six years, next February. Mr Cremer's tenure has seen the Shanghai-based school expand considerably, becoming one of the few internationally-recognised Chinese business schools. It has also recently opened a campus in Ghana.

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