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Extracted Content: In less than six years, HBS Online has established itself as a game-changer in the graduate business education landscape. Now, says Senior Associate Dean Debora Spar, the question is how the digital platform will evolve in a time of market — and internal — upheaval.
Speaking with Poets&Quants recently, Spar, a former president of New York’s Barnard College and current professor at Harvard Business School in addition to her role calling shots at HBS Online, says that after about five years the digital platform has risen to the fore among its peers. She points out that thousands have received Credential of Readiness (CORe) certification, which itself has come to be seen as perhaps the best way to prepare for entry into an elite full-time MBA program.
Now, Spar says, HBS Online is plotting its next steps.