Love School of Business leader talks about his approach to business education.

Tadepalli discussed his work in overhauling Babson’s MBA curriculum and what he learned in the process:
“The importance of working very closely with the business community to incorporate their needs into the curriculum. For instance, we got feedback that MBA programs don’t talk enough about governments and institutions, which are very important for business, so we shifted an economics course into one we called ‘managing at the crossroads’ about understanding the economy’s intersections with the world of government and financial institutions.”
Tadepalli said he is working to develop additional graduate programs in business at Elon. “I want us to develop ‘Four plus one’ programs such as an M.S. in business analytics and an M.A. in international business that would be seamlessly integrated with an undergraduate degree,” Tadepalli said.
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