We had some very interesting discussions in our Strategy and Competition in Higher Education class last night about "substitutes" for higher education and and whether they will become more attractive as the cost of obtaining a degree continues to rise and new alternative products and services emerge.
Margaret Andrews
Margaret Andrews is Associate Dean of Management Programs at Harvard University’s Division of Continuing Education and the founder of Mind and Hand Associates, a management consulting firm dedicated to serving the higher education community. At Harvard, Margaret directs the Management Program at the Division of Continuing Education. In this position, she has responsibility for over 4,000 course-takers, 400 degree candidates, and 100 instructors. In addition to directing the program, she teaches courses in management and organizational behavior, including a new course, Strategy and Competition in Higher Education. Through Mind and Hand Associates, Margaret provides research and strategy and marketing consulting services to clients in the higher education sector. Clients include for-profit and not-for-profit universities, business schools, associations, testing organizations, publishers, and investment firms.
Previous positions include Executive Director at the MIT Sloan School of Management from 1999-2006, where she managed the MBA program, Admissions, Student Affairs, Career Development, Marketing, Alumni Relations, and the MIT Sloan Management Review. She has also been Vice President of Marketing at Putnam Investments, as well as a consultant at Mercer Management Consulting (now Oliver Wyman) and a CPA at Deloitte & Touche.
Margaret hails from California and has an undergraduate degree from the University of California at Berkeley. She also has a graduate degree from MIT Sloan.
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