From Bloomberg BusinessWeek:
Harvard Business School is quietly developing its first
online learning initiative, which it hopes will make HBS the world’s top
provider of high quality online business education. The move has
the potential to shake up the nascent online education market and give
the elite business school a toehold in the world of MOOCs, or massive
open online courses. It’s a high-stakes gamble for HBS, which has one
of the world’s best-known—and carefully burnished—educational brands. John
Fernandes, the chief executive of the business school accreditation
group Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, called
Harvard’s move a “watershed” moment for the century-old business school,
which will be adding a third delivery model to the MBA and executive
education programs it now offers...
The courses will likely be offered through edX, the MOOC provider, starting in spring or summer 2014...
Full story at http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-10-09/harvard-business-school-launching-online-learning-initiative
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