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Executive MBA programs ... require an intense amount of commitment, intelligence and time management. ... 
Traditional MBAs have the luxury of ONLY being focused on their education.[/quote]

This solipsism is embarrassing.  Younger full-time students are more intensely committed to their educations, and less committed to jobs, family, etc.  Older executive students have a higher opportunity cost of attendance, and are limited by other commitments.  Executives appreciate their education more, because it is so expensive.

Executive students are weaker technically, but more mature at applications.  For example, I assigned a Harvard case about investing in gold.  Full-time students did a good statistical analysis showing that gold had low historical returns with high risk, and was not a useful hedge.  They abruptly concluded by recommending gold investments because "there is nothing else like gold!"  Confused, I retorted "What about silver?"  They looked at me like deer in headlights, as though I had asked a trick question.  Executives would not be so flummoxed.[/quote]

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