Harvard University - HES offers Doctorate in Management Online

APRIL FOOL! GOTCHA!

 

:chairshot::chairshot::chairshot:

 

Well played, sir. :lmao:

 

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Had me excited...for five seconds.

Brings up a larger point, when fine universities, even elites such as Duke, Columbia, Johns Hopkins, Southern California, UNC, etc. are willing to do DL doctorates in other disciplines such as nursing, education, and engineering, why is absolutely no one out there not only among the elites, but even among the good-but-not greats, willing to do a DL academic-type, research-oriented management degree at a distance? I know Creighton, Florida, Georgia State and others do DBAs, but they're invariably practitioner-oriented, not academic-oriented. Rankles me, because there's no functional reason why academic-type business research couldn't be conducted at a distance--there are a number of Euro management degrees, such as Henley, EBS, Leicester, that can be had at a distance and are very much research-based, academic in nature. Heck, every biz article I've ever submitted for publication was emailed to an editor of a journal, sent out to reviewers, vetted and sent back for corrections, then back-and-forth for months until eureka, a publication! Just a microcosm of the same process that would be necessary to support an academic doctorate. I don't get it, why can't a single U.S. school jump in and do it? It can't be the AACSB, can it? Because AACSB Euro schools do have some not-purely practitioner-based management doctorates available DL.

 

Indeed. Made me look.

I've wondered the same thing. I truly don't know what the answer is.

I have a hard time believing it's an AACSB issue. The University of Liverpool, after all, offers a totally online AACSB accredited DBA.

 

Maybe the answer is another question . . . What would be their motivation?

 

I recently stumbled upon a program that is kind of close. University of Texas at Tyler now offers a PhD in Human Resource Development that is sort of DL. It "only" requires five visits a semester to campus. Still, with that many visits a person would have to move to the Tyler area for it to be practical:

Doctorate Human Resource Development Texas, PhD Human Resources Texas, HR Degree

 

$$$$$$$$$$

 

I know there's also a UT-Tyler-like PhD program in management at Oklahoma State that requires frequent residencies, but near as I can tell it's still a practitioner-based degree (not sure why they call it a PhD and not a DBA) and insanely expensive.

 

Yeah, but those top tier schools don't need the money. They've already got more than they can use.

 

Hey, Kizmet, you're talking to a business prof. Why that's like saying you already have more happiness, more love, more good fortune than you can use: does not compute! :wink1: If the top schools really feel that way, they could always just drop their tuition to community college levels--but of course they don't and won't, they demand what the market will bear, which is $60K+ for an MBA, upwards of $200K for bachelor's or a law degree, etc. No matter how great the endowment, they like the money.

 

Actually, many of the elite schools are paying for people to attend now. At Harvard, for example you can go for free if your family makes less than 65K per year. This has begun to happen at multiple universities all over the country. But you knew that, since you're a business prof.

 

Meanwhile, in a different part of the world . . .

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/04/01/no-joke-april-fools-day-has-been-banned-in-china/

 

My favorite April Fools joke so far today: The U.S. Air Force came out today with a proposal to replace its aging fleet of A-10 ground attack aircraft with X-Wing Fighters. Seems legit to me.

Air Force Proposes X-Wings As A-10 Replacement | Popular Science

 

you totally got me lol, dang.

 

Don't get all snarky with me, I really wasn't firing shots across your bow there. I already did know about that, but didn't know Harvard was doing it. I did know that a few other trans-elites did something very similar, such as Washington University in St. Louis. In any event, nothing that I said changes, they absolutely do want the jing, the money factor hasn't changed and the vast majority of Ivy League students are not coming from families making less than $65K. Money still drives this show in large part, and that I absolutely know.

 

HaHa. Yeah, you're right and I'm wrong. Except that my answer explains the situation and yours doesn't.

 

Needed a link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfr64zoBTAQ

 

good one:laughing::yes(1):