Poets & Quants, February 8, 2013
Hubbard discusses the anxiety in MBA programs, Columbia's MBA application plunge, and why alum Warren Buffett has not donated.
Interview by John A. Byrne
(Poets&Quants)
-- If Columbia Business School Dean Glenn Hubbard were to advise his
McKinsey-bound son on where to get his MBA, Hubbard says there are only
four or five programs that he would recommend. He declines to mention
the schools by name, but you can rest assured that Columbia would be on
the list along with Harvard, Stanford, and Wharton. That leaves a lot of
very good schools off the list.
Hubbard, dean of Columbia's business school since July 2004, is an economist by training. He joined Columbia in 1988, after beginning his teaching career at Northwestern. He was chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President George Bush and a top economic advisor to Mitt Romney during his recent presidential campaign.
In a wide-ranging interview with Poets&Quants, Hubbard discusses, among other things, the anxiety in MBA programs, whether Warren Buffett will become a donor, and...
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