Harvard’s two most famous business professors are at odds over online MBAs

Late last year, Harvard’s prestigious business school announced that it was making a foray into online education. Its approach, called HBX, is dramatically different from that of Wharton and other universities, which have used platforms like Coursera to reach millions of students. Harvard’s is a proprietary platform that will start out by offering a series of classes teaching business fundamentals to recent undergraduates, complete with case studies. A nine-week set of three courses will cost $1,500.