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MBA Programs Expand Career Prospects For Cross-Trained Scientists
by Robert Finn, The Scientist, June 26, 1995.
12 Month MBA for Scientists and Engineers
The Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell now offers a 12 month MBA program for scientists and engineers.
MBA for Scientists
The University of Alabama Birmingham is proud to announce that we are accepting applications for the accelerated 1-year MBA program for scientists. The MBA for Scientists is a full-time, traditional MBA program with a twist. The curriculum is structured in a way that allows students to complete the program in one year and includes specialized courses in Technology Commercialization and Entrepreneurship. The MBA for scientists is for students and Post-docs that have completed graduate degrees in science or technology fields such as Biochemistry, Biology, Biomedical Engineering, Cell Biology, Computer Science, Engineering Genetics, Medicine, Microbiology, Pathology, Physics, Physiology, etc. The MBA for scientists is a 45-hour, full-time program. The program runs for 3 consecutive semesters beginning in the fall and ending in the summer. Students take the course in lock-step fashion and move through the program in a peer-group. As a student in the program, one will be surrounded by others with advanced degrees in science and technology.
Mixing Students and Scientists in the Classroom
HBS Working Knowledge. "In his course on commercializing science and technology, Lee Fleming combines students from business, engineering, law, science, and medicine. The result: Ideas for products from scale-eating bacteria to quantum dot cancer treatments."
A snapshot of jobs in the biosciences industry suggests that business training may be worth
Naturejobs, Aug. 29, 2007 Since the rise of biotechnology in the 1970s, the worlds of bioscience and business have drawn ever closer together. But for jobseekers interested in the biosciences industry, how much of an asset is business training? It may offer some advantages. The pharmaceutical industry, for example, is suffering serious job losses (see Nature 448, 965; 2007), but there still are jobs available, and business training is one way to get a leg up. The extent to which that training translates into broadened opportunities is hard to quantify. The Keck Graduate Institute in Claremont, California, which specializes in bioscience degrees that incorporate business skills, has released a report that assesses the situation (see http://www.kgi.edu/x6503.xml).