In 2013, the Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis stretched its executive M.B.A. program to the West for the second time in three years.
The business school at the private nonprofit university announced it would start offering its executive M.B.A. program, or E.M.B.A., in Denver in September of that year. The 20-month program would meet monthly in chunks of several days and be split into two halves — the first in Denver and the second on Washington University’s St. Louis campus. It would also have an international residency in Shanghai. That mirrored what the business school was doing in Kansas City, Mo., where it had been offering an E.M.B.A. since 2010. It was a time when several top business schools were bringing in…
