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Harvard MBA courses move online amid COVID spikes

Brian Sozzi, Julie Hyman, and Brian Cheung discuss the news of Harvard’s MBA courses moving online as the campus experiences COVID spikes and what this latest move could mean for other schools across the nation.

Video transcript

- Julie, I know you just flagged some news out of Harvard that, I'm going to be honest, I'm not sure I can really comment on because I spent the weekend touring my abandoned bankrupt college [INAUDIBLE]. I don't think I can really comment on this one, so you take it away.

- OK. The story is-- and I won't comment on that-- the story is Harvard Business School is pulling back from in-person instruction and going all remote from this week through October 3rd. And that's because the school-- just for first-year MBA students, because it has seen a steady rise in breakthrough infections.

Now, you know, you can debate the importance of Harvard Business School itself specifically, but I'm more interested in the sort of broader importance here, that this is yet another example of a-- an institution that has seen a rise in breakthrough cases and is now being forced to pull back. What does this tell us about both corporate America and, probably very importantly as well for the job market, lower education, as well? You know, K through 12 education, are we going to see a lot of closures because of both breakthrough cases, and just regular old cases, as well?

- Is undergrad still--

- I'm wondering--

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--discount here.

What do you think, Brian?

- I was going to say, I wasn't sure if this also applies to undergrad, which raises a lot of questions about why are you prioritizing the business school, as opposed to the undergrads here. We know that a lot of schools are [INAUDIBLE] beginning of their fall semesters in this 2021 calendar--