Doesn’t seem like HBS will change that as it will fundamentally change the section experience and a key aspect of collaboration they actually have at HBS (more experienced ppl in a field helping the less experienced).
However, I do think that the HBS curriculum will change within the next 1-3 years. Dean Nohria has a very strong philosophy on leadership and ethics; I believe this will translate to a fundamental change in how these two aspects of b-school are emebedded in the curriculum and taught at HBS.
haha, I agree, that HBS first year lock-step “RC” is Rock Of Gibralter for now, and deeply embedded in the school’s case method mythos abot learning leadership from diverse views, blah, blah, but even rocks can be chipped away at.
One of these days, when I get around to it, I will publish Nohria’s ‘stump speech’ e.g. what he saying to small groups of faculty, alums, students, blah, blah gleaned fr. reports back to me, and what it really means. He is setting the table, in a slow-moving and shrewd way, for initiating case method changes 2nd year, and changing, in small but impt ways, the “demo” of the class to make it more female, international, and PC. HRH already on the case.
Read the full article: HBS “RC” may stay, but Nohria settig the table for more woman and PC admissions