Covid-19禍でのMBA学生のソーシャルライフについて

6 Ways To Make The Most Of The Covid MBA Experience

2/6付のPoets and Quantsに面白い記事が掲載されていました。
Coronavirus has changed the MBA experience. But it doesn’t have to ruin it

今回は皆さんにとって参考になりそうな点を記してみます。

■コロナ禍においてもネットワーキングをMBA学生は価値を置いている

Stanford大学組織行動学教授のリサーチによると、「選択肢が限られているとき、人はより多くの多様な解決策を生み出す」ことが示されています

これまでのようにface to faceコミュニケーションを図ることは難しくなりましたがバーチャル上でのネットワーキングは非常に活発です

-Virtual tours of the school & town for international students who could not make it to campus;
-Small outdoor socially distanced get togethers (e.g., BBQs);
-Virtual (and in-person outdoor) workout classes taught or hosted by classmates;
-Virtual (and in-person) small group volunteering events for local charities;
-Voting drives for the November Elections

ユニークな事例がいくつか掲載されていますが、その中でMBA時受験生にとても有益な情報がありましたので紹介します。

At Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, Fuqua MBA Association Co-President Mike Treiser recognized a potential concern among onboarding the incoming Class of 2022 MBA students due to the constraints of Covid-19. Working alongside admissions personnel and numerous other Fuqua administrators, they set up weekly virtual onboarding events for their incoming MBA students on topics ranging from life in Durham, how the Administration was handling changing safety regulations, and how incoming students could prepare for business school. The responses of these sessions were overwhelmingly positive from both students and administrators. Even after things return to normal, Fuqua still hopes to utilize this approach.

留学を検討されている皆さんにとって、MBA留学に対して不安になることもあるでしょう。この時期だからこそ、皆さんが目指しているMBAコミュニティに対しての理解を深めていただきたいと思います。そしてそのコミュニティにアクセスすることをお勧めします。上述のように皆さんの考える以上にサポーティブなコミュニティが皆さんを待っています。そして、オンラインコミュニティだからこそ気軽にアクセスできることもぐっと増えています。

https://poetsandquants.com/2021/02/16/6-ways-to-make-the-most-of-the-covid-mba-experience/?pq-category=business-school-news&pq-category-2=students&utm_campaign=PQNL&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=111651915&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_QjpW0V9330SEiyMC2CG8f_jHUYBBZyUbYkSKsrtWfgiFCRy16hqDpYXl29AAzBObJ0aHJg36QbRtvOkBHHkI5EllCCQ&utm_content=111651915&utm_source=hs_email

Chizuko Okada

COVID-19 Update:世界のTop25MBAプログラムの現状について

Top MBAプログラムはオンラインでの提供が主流

コロナ渦の中でMBAクラスはどのように提供されているのか、最新情報の記事がPoets and Quantsにアップされました
COVID-19 Update: What 2021 Looks Like So Far At The Leading MBA Programs

2020年Fall intakeではハイブリッド(オンラインと対面クラスのミックス)形式で多くの学校でクラスの提供が始まりましたが、現在は一部のプログラムを除き、多くのクラスがオンラインでの提供に切り替えられています。

The latest EFMD report, The Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis on Business Schoolsでは、100以上のビジネススクールに調査を行い、提供プログラムの変化についての調査を行っています。https://www.efmdglobal.org/knowledge/report-the-impact-of-the-covid-19-crisis-on-business-schools/

Top 25 U.S. B-schools and top European schoolsの各学校のCovid-19 (2021/2/16発表記事より)

■ US programs
Stanford GSB: Students are on campus, course instruction is a hybrid of online and in-person
Harvard Business School: Classes remain hybrid; student gatherings outdoors limited to 25, indoors to 10
Penn Wharton: Alert Level 2: Heightened Awareness. At this level, Wharton “is able to conduct its various hybrid scenarios.”
Chicago Booth: In-class student participation on all three Illinois campuses limited to “local” residents
MIT Sloan: All students registered for in-person classes are required to test twice a week, 3-4 days apart
Northwestern Kellogg: Classes to be hybrid; spring class-bidding postponed to February 19
Columbia Business School: CBS continues its “HyFlex” model of teaching, in which students are mixed between in-person and remote instruction
UC-Berkeley Haas: Self-sequester for residential students lifted
Dartmouth Tuck: 78,000 students have been tested since July 1, with 103 cases found; hybrid teaching will continue through the spring 2021 term. Dartmouth College requires those accessing campus facilities to be tested for Covid twice weekly.
Yale SOM:Hybrid: Half of students will attend a given class session in person while the other half participates remotely
Virginia Darden: As of Feb. 12, UVA leadership is keeping the restriction on meetings and gatherings at six people, but may move to even more limited operations if there is a continued increase in cases
Cornell Johnson: Ithaca campus “reactivation” underway
Michigan Ross: Ross is continuing to offer a mix of remote, hybrid, and a few fully in-person classes to undergraduate and graduate students
Duke Fuqua: Hybrid; 20 positive cases found Feb. 8-14 through about 12,000 tests of students, faculty and staff across Duke University
NYU Stern: Hybrid
UCLA Anderson: Remote
CMU Tepper: Hybrid
USC Marshall: Remote
UNC Kenan-Flagler: Remote
Texas-Austin McCombs:Hybrid: Campus is at Level 3: Ultra-low density, meaning buildings are open but a large number of classes are being conducted remotely
Washington: Phase 2: Most classes are remote
Emory Goizueta: Hybrid, but all in-person classes also will be available online to accommodate vulnerable populations
Indiana Kelley: Hybrid
Georgetown McDonough: Most classes are remote, but some graduate courses may have in-person components
Georgia Tech Scheller: Hybrid

■European program
London Business School: Under national lockdown; learning is all remote
HEC Paris: Remote
INSEAD: Classrooms open with extensive safety measures
IESE: MBA classrooms have reopened

最新情報は以下の各学校の発信している情報でご確認ください。(各学校のリンクでご確認ください)
https://poetsandquants.com/2021/02/16/covid-19-update-what-2021-looks-like-so-far-at-the-leading-mba-programs/2/

Chizuko Okada