September 3rd, 2009
Wisconsin MBA Featured on CNN
CNN's Ali Velshi conducts a town hall discussion with students in front of Grainger Hall. Photo by University Communications
CNN taped a segment with representatives of the full-time Wisconsin MBA program on Friday, Sept. 4. The segment aired on CNN’s “Your $$$$,” co-hosted by CNN Chief Business Correspondent Ali Velshi and Christine Romans, Saturday, Sept. 5 and Sunday, Sept. 6.
Interviewed for the segment were Michael Knetter, Albert O. Nicholas Dean of the Wisconsin School of Business; Kenneth Kavajecz, associate dean of the MBA program; Assistant Dean Blair Sanford, who directs career services; and two Wisconsin MBA students, Luis Otero and Kemllen Lee.
Asked how the economic crisis had affected how business was taught in the MBA program, Kavajecz said that the past 15 months “have been an extraordinary learning experience for anyone in finance or anyone in business, for that matter. Frankly, in my class last year, I had to set aside 20 minutes of every class to talk about who ailed in the last two weeks or two days and what that means for the economy. What are we going to do about it? Do the solutions that people are talking about make sense? So, we have adapted some of the curriculum to handle the environment we are watching unfold. But the foundation of what we talk about and the principles don’t change at all.”
It was the second day in a row that a CNN Express team taped on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. On Thursday, Velshi conducted a town-hall meeting with Wisconsin students in Grainger Hall’s courtyard on how the economy is affecting their lives.
Read coverage of CNN’s visit.