Jack Welch Launches Online MBA

Here is the link to this recent BusinessWeek article:

http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/content/jun2009/bs20090622_962094.htm?link_position=link1

 

Sounds interesting, that's for sure. I didn't notice any mention of a concern for accreditation. I wonder if he's banking on his name/ego to bring that in.

 

The MBA will be offered through the regionally accredited (NCA) Chancellor University in Ohio.
http://www.jwmi.com/news/2009-06-22_JWMI_Press_Release.pdf

 

Yes, I also noticed there is no mention of accreditation. I'm sure his name does add weight to the program, but I don't think it substitutes for accreditation.

I wonder if this program, affiliated with Jack Welch, will have some skeptics change their perception of online education.

 

I posted this here last week...WSJ article says that Jack hopes to expand online learning and improve how it is viewed.

http://www.degreeinfo.com/showthread.php?t=31247

 

I trust there will be a course in Media Relations.

[He agreed to an interview with the editor of the Harvard Business Review. Slept with her that very night and frequently thereafter. In the divorce suit, his wife claimed half his billion-dollar wealth. (Their pre-nup agreement had expired three years earlier). His earlier wife claimed 80 cases of adultery in her divorce action. What a guy.]

 

And an ethics class too, right?

 

Well, I've never been too impressed with him. He's obviously got business chops, but his ego/attitude/fullness with himself has never sat that well with me.

He could be the greatest gift to the business world, but I'd never pay for anything with his name attached to it.

Just my .02 cents.

 

More info...

This article is from the Chronicl of Higher Ed

http://chronicle.com/article/Jack-Welch-Sets-Out-to-Upend/48968/

 

This article is very interesting and touches on topics discussed in other threads on this forum:

• MBAs
• On-line vs. classroom learning
• AASCB degrees
• For-profit schools
• Chancellor (RA but on probation!!!)

 

I read that article and one of the reasons why I enrolled into the program that starts on January 4th. I'm still a little undecided even though I completed the enrollment form. I also read the article and listened to the 19 minute podcast interview with Noel Tichy and it sounds very impressive on how Noel wants to bring guest speakers and the amount of corporations and schools want to get involved with the program. I guess the reason why I am still on edge because I was mainly looking at taking more finance courses, but showing the program with management at my office they said for 10K it's a bargain.

Edit: I forgot to add that 10k, I am referring to the veteran discount which is 250 per month for veterans. The standard tuition is 600.

 

The degree is through Chancellor University (fka Myers University, fka Dyke College), which is already regionally accredited.

 

I like Jack Welch, but think about this... Don't link your credential to a personal brand of someone else. You do not have control over them and if they screw up, so goes the credibility of your credential.

Just think about this...

I also was looking into the JWMBA, but decided agains it.

 

I read the article today from Dr. Steve Kerr very interesting on what they want to do with the MBA program. Decisions decisions.

 

The legacy of Jack Welch

https://marker.medium.com/the-flawed-twisted-legacy-of-jack-welch-105b36ff1521

 

RIP Jack. I had the fortune to meet him a few times, he was remarkably kind in person and outside of work settings. Although at the height of his reign at GE, he certainly groomed some disastrous executive leaders, I had a number of run ins. For what it's worth, in his latter years he did acknowledge that much of the way he managed GE in the early years was contrary to long term success and that things like his vitality curve were completely wrong. He really excelled with challenging the corporate bureaucracy, empowering middle management, and instilling a hunger for data driven kaizen that spread throughout corporate American culture. When I taught Lean-Six Sigma classes though, I'd often find myself contrasting the GE versus Toyota methodology though, certainly prefer and believe in the latter over the former.