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To Learn to Lead, Wharton Students Travel Far from the Classroom.
Byline: Miriam Hill
Feb. 17--Michael Useem has some unusual ways of getting Wharton M.B.A. students to unleash their inner General Pattons.
He has put them through Marine officer candidate training at Quantico, led them on treks up Mount Everest, and sent them to Gettysburg to analyze the Confederate and Union strategies. Useem says he believes that as students learn history and take turns leading hikes, they gain insight into an ability corporate America is increasingly demanding: leadership.
"These experiences drive points home in ways they will never be forgotten," said Useem, a management professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
It's a sort of Outward Bound on steroids, American Gladiators goes to business school.
Masters in business administration degree programs tend to project a buttoned-down image of spreadsheets and case studies. Wharton and other schools have begun to take those future executives out of the classroom and put them into the field or jungle or wilderness. About 400 of Wharton's 1,500 M.B.A. students choose to participate each year in one of the ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, To Learn to Lead, Wharton Students Travel Far from the Classroom.