Poets and Quants Features William & Mary's New Online MBA Program

The Mason School's new Online MBA Program was featured on Poets and Quants in an article titled "An Online MBA For The Renaissance Manager." Professor Jim Olver was interviewed for the story: “We got together as a faculty and looked for the disconnect between the traditional MBA and what’s required of leaders in the 21st Century,” Olver explains. “The traditional MBA skills like finance, marketing, operations and others are still important, but they are table stakes. If you look at research from IBM Global or what Deloitte and McKinsey are doing, you see what’s also needed is training in seeing around corners, taking intelligent risks and embracing complexity and ambiguity.” Read full article