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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