NY Times Close Link Between Engineering & Business Management

“As the dominant applied science in industry, engineering quickly emerged as a major recruiting ground for the applied science of management; and the link is still close today — reflected in an increasing tendency to combine the two in specialized M.B.A. and recruitment programs. ”
“Reflecting that, 70 percent of the school’s (MIT Sloan) M.B.A. students this year have engineering backgrounds, up from 55 percent last year.”

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