The answer is the best M.B.A. programs are highly integrated.
1. The premise is that future managers can't understand marketing unless they study product development, and they can't study product development unless they simultaneously study manufacturing.
2. They can't learn to manage manufacturing unless they study cost accounting, and they can't study cost accounting unless they study organization design, because all these activities are inextricably related.
3. The job of a general manager is so comprehensive and interdependent, the belief goes, that students must study all of its dimensions in order to understand any of its dimensions.
Hence, the leading schools of management are extensively integrated.
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