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SPECIAL FOCUS Building the The Carey Business School at Johns Hopkins University designs its new Global MBA program to prepare graduates to thrive in an international and interdisciplinary workplace. 38 September/October 2011 BizEd CenturyCurriculum E 21st- BY PHILLIP PHAN ver since the Carnegie Foundation began classifying universities by the levels of research they produce, business schools have been turning out students who are experts in silo-based disciplines. But it's becoming increasingly apparent that those aren't the kinds of gradu- ates businesses are looking for. What corporations want from business schools today are graduates who are prepared to work in complex, mobile, global, multidisciplinary environ- ments from the minute they walk through the door. I was involved in a two-year survey of what parents, students, and employers expect from a business program when I was part of a steering committee that helped launch a full-time MBA program at the new Carey Business School at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. In our research, we learned that technical skills are still impor- tant—that employers want graduates who have mastered the basic tools of marketing, finance, and operations—but those skills aren't enough by themselves anymore. B-school grads won't simply be asked to run spreadsheets; they'll have to interpret what they find, then sell their analysis to top man- agement. They'll have to be entrepreneurial in how they deal with corporate problems and opportunities.