Analy ze T h i s !
whether my students should learn to
write code. A recent Business Week article entitled “B-Schools Finally Acknowledge: Companies Want MBAs Who Can
Code” [3] provides a brief description of
what several elite MBA programs are doing to provide their students with opportunities to study programming. Yet almost
none of the examples that are cited in
the article, ranging from a joint MBA and
MS in computer science at Stanford to
new elective courses being considered
at Harvard, mention data management
(with the exception of economist David
Backus’ new elective in data visualization and Python being offere