Kellogg World Alumni Magazine

GROUND OUR
EDUCATIONAL MISSION

At Kellogg, our goal is to teach students to think rigorously, collaboratively and bravely about the practice of business, the promise of technology and the role of markets in human progress.

Toward this end, we will:

  • Undertake a comprehensive review of our MBA core curriculum — the deepest one we've embarked on in 30 years — with a team of eight faculty members led by professors David Besanko and Sunil Chopra. (We can't imagine two better faculty members to lead this important task.) Building from this team's findings, we will establish a new foundation for how we educate, equip and inspire this century's leaders.

  • Rebalance our portfolio of degree offerings to better meet the needs of the global marketplace. The evidence is clear: the dominance of the two-year, U.S.-based MBA degree is waning as demand grows globally for shorter, more specialized training. If our goal is to educate the world's best students, we must be flexible in how we structure our education to meet the needs of the 21st century's elite workforce. Over the next five years, we anticipate growing demand from top global students for one-year programs and specialized executive education courses taught abroad.

  • Set an aggressive technology agenda that complements and optimizes the classroom learning experience. Through this initiative, we will combine and balance the best of technology and "off-line/online learning" with the enduring power that only face-to-face teaching can provide.

  • Create highly flexible and stimulating physical learning environments that transform the classroom experience. Our goal is to use our new building as an opportunity to set the standard for how in-person learning will be physically structured and staged in the 21st century. The 65-person, case-based teaching bowl is a 50-year-old technology now — it's time to replace it with more flexible, interactive models. Who better to do that than Kellogg?

 

You try to translate the vision which has been established into a work of architecture that is commensurate with that vision. It establishes Kellogg and gives it a platform to be what it aspires to be.

Bruce Kuwabara,
partner, KPMB Architects