Harvard’s two most famous business professors are at odds over online MBAs - Max Nisen, Quartz

Late last year, Harvard’s prestigious business school announced that it was making a foray into online education. A nine-week set of three courses will cost $1,500. Clayton Christensen, arguably the institution’s best-known professor completely disagrees with the school’s strategy. He dismisses it as an extremely expensive system that could potentially be upended by a cheaper technology option. “What they’re doing is, in my language, a sustaining innovation,” Christensen said. Put baldly, Harvard is putting itself on track for irrelevance, more like Kodak or Blackberry than like Google, Christensen argues. The school is following a strategy closer to one espoused by the long-time professor Michael Porter who has argued Harvard should online courses, but in a way that uses its strengths without hurting its current business. http://qz.com/215676/harvards-two-most-famous-business-professors-are-at-odds-over-online-mbas/