Design Leadership MBA at JHU Enters Second Year
Love design? Interested in business? You might want to think about John Hopkins’s Design Leadership MBA.
Entering its second year at the Carey School of Business, the innovative Design Leadership MBA continues breaking new ground. When the program started last fall, it was the first MBA program in the nation to form a joint degree with an art school–local Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). Now its cohort of fourteen is heading into its second year, and the program will see its first graduates early this summer.
“I realized that many of the organizations I was working for would benefit from incorporating the creative process into their strategic decision- making,” current student Molly Needleman recently explained in an interview with MICA. Needleman’s background in communications and marketing left her hungry for formal business training that would make full use of her creative talents. She now intends to pursue a career in the health care industry–an area of rising interest at schools across the nation.
“Design thinking’ can be applied to many business situations — not just product design,” reported her classmate Hamilton Sean M. Whitney (‘14), who, if the number of first names in his name is anything to go by, probably knows what he’s talking about. “It provides a unique and competitive edge in the market.”
It’s just another example of innovation at your local DC business schools.
