Part of the interview is a group exercise, and they are observed. When a school refuses a senior, it's often a case of covering its own behind. A smaller school, like ours, would have heard Joseph out. We were like a garage, not an assembly line. You have to be a little mad, like me, to do it, though.
Older people are tougher to manage.
The school feeds its over-35s into more specialized short programs for experienced managers who need more skills in certain sectors like marketing, human resources, finance or information systems. Both have new MBA deans today. New MBA dean Landis Gabel says the age level in the MBA intake is already broad enough. We don't have a cutoff point, nor should we. I'd say first off he or she might pick an MBA that better serves their market segment.