1. Together we can do more!
Collaborativemba.org

2. Workshop Outline
Program history, start-up phase, structure & format – Jim S.
The role of program residencies - George
Lessons learned from the synchronous format – Jim L.
CMU – the process of joining the program - Craig
Challenges and Opportunities
Questions/Discussion

3. Start-up Phrase Development of the model - MBA Structure
Oversight committee
Program Director
Individual school program directors
Marketing/Admissions Committee
CFO’s
Oversight committee
Annual budget
General Policy
Oversees program director
Program Director
Manage the day-to-day program
Individual school program directors
Curriculum
Residencies
Professors
Marketing/Admissions Committee
Develop annual marketing and admissions plans
CFO’s
Review annual budgets

4. Start-up Phase Additional systems Information Technology Financial Aid
Registrar
Library
Instructional Design & Technology
Business Offices

5. Revenue Split - MBA 60% to teaching school 30% to overhead
10% to admitting school
Financial reconciliation each semester
Financial reconciliation each semester
Core courses are split up evenly for revenue sharing
Concentration courses are offered by each school and compensated by demand

6. Two courses in residency – one North American, one international
Flexible cohort model
9 core courses
3 concentration courses
Cohort model but flexible. We have other students in core and concentration courses

7. The Opening Residency
By George Lehman, Bluffton University

8. Goals
Create a learning community that can function at a distance for the next year. 2nd residency is an international trip the next summer.
Position the Collaborative MBA program in the context of Leadership for the Common Good.
Re-introduce anxious adult learners to disciplined academic inquiry and provide graded feedback to reinforce this discipline.
Practice using Zoom video conference technology.
Orient students to the processes of a four-institution program.
Meet program faculty in person or in live video.

9. Structure Do lots of preparatory reading and writing.
Live in the same hotel.
Participate in class sessions (including orientation and such) essentially all day for four and half days. Extensive discussion time.
Eat noon and evening meals together.
Noon on campus.
Evening in a range of fun settings.
More, but not too much, reading and writing.
Planning for preparation and presentation of final course paper on Zoom in three weeks.

10. Books (substantial sections of each)
Sun Tzu, The Art of War (!)
Frederick Taylor, Principles of Scientific Management
Pauline Graham, ed., Mary Parker Follett, Prophet of Management
Robert Greenleaf, Servant Leadership
Robert Goleman, Emotional Intelligence
Howard Gardner, Leading Minds an Anatomy of Leadership

11. Writing Projects Pre-residency: summary and reaction paper
During the residency: Discussion of servant leadership
Post-residency: Extended case study of a particular leader through the lens of the course content.

12. My Assessment
Student energy, anxiety and shared work experience carries the week.
Great way to start.
Intense, stimulating, fun and exhausting.

13. Overall Program Challenges
The cumbersome academy X four?
High trust levels needed!
Who is in charge?
Adjusting to an online world
Online vs. face-to-face differences and quality
Need new models for faculty incentives, expectations, accountability, and training.
Simultaneous centralization and decentralization
e.g. Academic advising varies
Differing institutional cultures and practices.

14. Opportunities Current New educational models in the future?
Goshen/EMU DNP
EMU undergrads taking course at CMU
Upper-level under-enrolled courses
New educational models – increase accessibility, lower cost.
EMU GA’s take Bluffton MBA courses
New educational models in the future?
Augmenting majors at other schools
Sharing professors in specialized areas
Back-of-the-house efficiencies
Collaborative For-profits?