Canadian business schools are responding to a growing demand to produce more graduates with a thorough understanding of business analytics, writes Adam Stanley for the Globe and Mail. Stanley highlights efforts at McGill University, Carleton University, York University, and McMaster University to introduce MBA-level concentrations in analytics. “We’ve seen over the years in the MBA program the interest has changed a lot more to MBA students being interested in data-driven analytical decision making,” says Vedat Verter, an operations management professor at McGill. “They [students] were asking for courses in analytics, and to a large extent we looked at the market trends, and we saw the gap between the supply and the demand for more analytically-oriented managers.”
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