{"id":42863,"date":"2026-11-03T09:12:12","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T14:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/?p=42863"},"modified":"2026-11-03T09:12:12","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T14:12:12","slug":"ai-hbs-online-executive-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/ai-hbs-online-executive-education\/","title":{"rendered":"The mbaMission Podcast: Harvard Business School\u2019s Online and Executive Education Programs? | Ep 127"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Episode 127 of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The mbaMission Podcast<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, mbaMission Senior Consultant Harold Simansky talks with Patrick Mullane, executive director of Harvard Business School (HBS) Online and Executive Education, and Simeen Mohsen, senior managing director of HBS Online. Together, Patrick and Simeen describe what HBS has built beyond its degree programs over the past decade and where artificial intelligence (AI) is expected to take these offerings going forward.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"video-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Harvard Business School\u2019s Online and Executive Education Programs | Ep 127\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JxHypHT9_Rc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/5toAEvyGWvQGUlI7JjPlFI?si=2b66c62ca8514135\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-41852\" 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sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_89 ez-toc-wrap-left counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/ai-hbs-online-executive-education\/#why_did_hbs_reverse_course_on_online_learning\" >Why Did HBS Reverse Course on Online Learning?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/ai-hbs-online-executive-education\/#how_many_people_participate_in_hbs_online_and_executive_education_each_year\" >How Many People Participate in HBS Online and Executive Education Each Year?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/ai-hbs-online-executive-education\/#for_whom_are_the_in-person_executive_education_programs_designed\" >For Whom Are the In-Person Executive Education Programs Designed?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/ai-hbs-online-executive-education\/#how_do_the_online_and_in-person_programs_fit_together\" >How Do the Online and In-Person Programs Fit Together?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/ai-hbs-online-executive-education\/#can_an_online_or_executive_education_program_lead_to_an_mba\" >Can an Online or Executive Education Program Lead to an MBA?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/ai-hbs-online-executive-education\/#how_has_hbs_managed_concerns_about_cannibalization\" >How Has HBS Managed Concerns About Cannibalization?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-7\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/ai-hbs-online-executive-education\/#how_is_ai_changing_the_in-person_programs\" >How Is AI Changing the In-Person Programs?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-8\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/ai-hbs-online-executive-education\/#how_do_online_and_executive_education_feed_back_into_the_two-year_mba_program\" >How Do Online and Executive Education Feed Back into the Two-Year MBA Program?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-9\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/ai-hbs-online-executive-education\/#what_surprises_hbs_executive_education_participants_the_most\" >What Surprises HBS Executive Education Participants the Most?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-10\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/ai-hbs-online-executive-education\/#what_comes_next_for_hbs_online_and_executive_education\" >What Comes Next for HBS Online and Executive Education?<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"why_did_hbs_reverse_course_on_online_learning\"><\/span><b>Why Did HBS Reverse Course on Online Learning?<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Patrick recounts that early in the 2010s, HBS\u2019s then-dean, Nitin Nohria, was asked at an employee town hall meeting about whether the school would expand into online education. He answered that it would not happen while he was dean but then reversed course fairly soon after. At roughly this same time, Coursera began to emerge from Stanford, and MIT and Harvard jointly launched the educational platform edX. Notes Patrick, \u201cI think he [Nohria] realized that we\u2019re going to look like a dinosaur if we\u2019re not doing something.\u201d And in 2014, HBX was established to deliver the school\u2019s renowned case-method pedagogy to online students.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"how_many_people_participate_in_hbs_online_and_executive_education_each_year\"><\/span><b>How Many People Participate in HBS Online and Executive Education Each Year?<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Patrick estimates that the current portfolio includes upwards of 35 online programs and approximately 70 in-person executive education programs a year. Roughly 12,500 people take advantage of the school\u2019s in-person offerings each year, and as many as 40,000 participate in HBS\u2019s online courses.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"for_whom_are_the_in-person_executive_education_programs_designed\"><\/span><b>For Whom Are the In-Person Executive Education Programs Designed?<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Participants in HBS\u2019s in-person programs already have some measure of business experience; they are not coming directly from undergraduate study. The focus programs are generally one week in duration and concentrate on a specific discipline or topic. The longer programs are aimed at slightly older participants\u2014often middle managers, division managers, and even chief executive officers\u2014and confer HBS alumni status. Patrick explains that alumni status gives graduates of the qualifying programs access to the alumni database, the right to present themselves as HBS alumni on LinkedIn, and membership in alumni clubs around the world. Although HBS offers executive education courses, it does not award an executive MBA degree.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"how_do_the_online_and_in-person_programs_fit_together\"><\/span><b>How Do the Online and In-Person Programs Fit Together?<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Patrick says the two formats largely serve distinct audiences, given that people who choose an in-person program want to be on campus, whereas people who opt for HBS\u2019s online programs typically do so because they cannot get to campus, cannot afford the in-person option, or do not have as much time to dedicate to their studies. Some longer executive education programs involve a blended format, in which participants intermittently come to campus for a week and complete distance learning between visits. Simeen adds that HBS Online courses can serve as preparation for longer in-person programs\u2014such as financial accounting\u2014so all participants arrive at a common level.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"can_an_online_or_executive_education_program_lead_to_an_mba\"><\/span><b>Can an Online or Executive Education Program Lead to an MBA?<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rather than people using an executive education program as preparation for a full-time MBA program, Patrick has seen the opposite, with MBA graduates returning to school to complete executive education offerings. He tells the story of one participant who started out taking HBS Online courses, then attended an in-person event for online participants, and seven years later, graduated from HBS\u2019s Program for Leadership Development, one of the programs that confers alumni status. Simeen describes how some learners stack programs across their career, referencing one participant who has taken 28 of the school\u2019s online certificate programs, and calls the pattern a mosaic of pathways rather than a single route.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"how_has_hbs_managed_concerns_about_cannibalization\"><\/span><b>How Has HBS Managed Concerns About Cannibalization?<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When online learning began at HBS, cannibalization and brand dilution were the school\u2019s two big concerns. Patrick would remind faculty members who approached him about the cannibalization issue that HBS itself had taught him that it is better for an organization to cannibalize itself than let someone else do it. He adds that ultimately, HBS has \u201cexpanded the pie\u201d rather than splitting it, estimating that of the 30,000 to 40,000 people who take an online HBS course each year, no more than 10,000 might have considered pursuing a full-time MBA. He also cites the school\u2019s mission to educate leaders who make a difference in the world and the dean\u2019s position that doing everything with excellence protects the brand. He reports that worries have subsided over time.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"how_is_ai_changing_the_in-person_programs\"><\/span><b>How Is AI Changing the In-Person Programs?<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to Patrick, AI is everything right now in the evolution of HBS\u2019s in-person programs, but the situation is complicated by two specific difficulties. The first is that clients, whether individuals or companies, often arrive without knowing what they need from AI. The second is that integrating AI into the curriculum involves licenses for tools, cost factors, operational factors, and privacy factors when participants work with company material in a large language model. He says the school\u2019s dean has been aggressive on the question, and even though HBS has moved further than most schools in trying to figure it out, progress sometimes involves taking one step forward and two steps back.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"how_do_online_and_executive_education_feed_back_into_the_two-year_mba_program\"><\/span><b>How Do Online and Executive Education Feed Back into the Two-Year MBA Program?<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Both Simeen and Patrick assert that the same core faculty members teach across the portfolios. Professors use content created for online courses in the MBA classroom, many online courses feature newly written cases that add to the school\u2019s case portfolio, and faculty members test new cases in executive education before bringing them into the MBA classroom\u2014and vice versa. In addition, HBS hosts on-campus mixers in the fall and spring to allow MBA students and executive education participants to connect. Patrick views the school\u2019s executive education and online courses as opportunities to test ideas before they are integrated into the full-time MBA program.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"what_surprises_hbs_executive_education_participants_the_most\"><\/span><b>What Surprises HBS Executive Education Participants the Most?<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The living group aspect of the residential experience is what Patrick states most surprises HBS\u2019s executive education participants. After that is the quality of the teaching, which he says people tend to greatly underestimate. With respect to the case method, Patrick says, \u201cSt. Thomas Aquinas said about faith that for those who have it, no explanation is necessary. For those who don&#8217;t, no explanation will suffice. I always say that\u2019s the same about the case method. If you\u2019ve been through it, you get it. If you haven\u2019t, it\u2019s hard for me to explain to you why it\u2019s really, really powerful.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"what_comes_next_for_hbs_online_and_executive_education\"><\/span><b>What Comes Next for HBS Online and Executive Education?<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Simeen reports that HBS\u2019s online program will continue to innovate around how learners use their time. \u201cTheir time is incredibly valuable,\u201d she says. \u201cSo we want to make sure every minute counts.\u201d She adds, \u201cWe are using AI every day in what we do, and I continue to see that evolving, but all of it is focused around the delivery of learning to the participant.\u201d On the executive education side, Patrick says the core will remain strategy and leadership\u2014helping business leaders understand how new technology and geopolitics affect their organizations\u2014while the school determines how best to bring AI into the classroom. Another area of focus is how to serve entrepreneurs who will not pursue an MBA but have specific, time-sensitive learning needs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">New episodes of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The mbaMission Podcast<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are released every Tuesday on all major streaming platforms, with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@mbaMission\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">full video episodes on YouTube<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To talk through your own candidacy, sign up for a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/consult\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">free 30-minute consultation.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HBS Online and Executive Education leaders Patrick Mullane and Simeen Mohsen on a decade of online teaching at Harvard Business School\u2014program scale, alumni status, the case method, and AI in the classroom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":42864,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[25,643],"tags":[707,712,710,233,709,411,711],"class_list":["post-42863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-harvard-hbs","category-mbamission-podcast","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-case-method","tag-executive-education","tag-harvard-business-school","tag-hbs-online","tag-mba","tag-online-learning"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>How Is AI Changing HBS Online and Executive Education? 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