News: The New York Times Highlights Cornell Tech’s MBA Program

The New York Times has published an article titled MBA Programs Start To Follow Silicon Alley Into the Data Age which features Cornell Tech’s MBA program as the prime example of how business schools are innovating and adapting to compete in a data-driven, digital economy.

From The New York Times story:

Cornell Tech, a partnership with Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, began with a relative handful of computer science students in 2013. The long-range goal of the new “applied sciences” school is to have 2,000 graduate students by 2043. But this is the first year for the M.B.A. program, in which 39 business graduate students share a third of their curriculum with 34 graduate students in computer science.

Their joint work includes projects for New York businesses including banks, hedge funds, larger technology companies and start-ups. They work in small teams, and typically design and write software programs for the companies. The emphasis is on making things rather than planning.

On Tuesday afternoons, the students gather for “studio” sessions, where they sit in circles of chairs, give progress reports, discuss problems and get critiqued by faculty and outsiders. Until 2017, when it begins moving to its campus being built on Roosevelt Island, Cornell Tech resides in one of Google’s buildings in downtown Manhattan.

The aim of Cornell Tech is to train what its faculty calls “entrepreneurial, technology product managers,” which are needed across industry as digital technology spreads.

Read the full story in The New York Times here.