But UCLA may have found the best way to develop medical students empathy. What business school students are studying is changing. In 1990, only a couple of B-schools offered classes on the environment. Now over 100 do so. Courses on health care are booming.
Technology management is the fastest-growing concentration at many schools.
The best and the brightest, who used to be attracted to consulting and investment banking, are now saying, I want to be my own boss, says Harvard Business School prof William Sahlman. The way business students learn is changing. More and more, they re being shunted out of the classroom and into real business settings. Already Vanderbilt and MIT have prestigious designer majors in e-commerce. Yale and Michigan have especially delicious-looking designer majors in environmental management.