Description:

In order to provide better service to incoming full-time MBA students, the FrontDoor web site was created to help them prepare for and explore their new learning environment. This project was initiated by a team of 1st-year MBA students in Fall 2000. Their objective was to create a "one stop" on-line site that would simplify and streamline the overwhelming number of communication channels existing between the school and the students.

The original student "founders" passed the site on to the entering Fall 2001 class who created a new "look" for the site and requested a suite of editing scripts that would allow the students to update the news stories, event marquees, headline banners areas on their own. A number of useful tools such as a discussion board, weekly weather forecast, academic calendar and live stock ticker were added as well. The resulting "student ownership" of the site catapulted the site's popularity. FrontDoor is now the default homepage of the majority of Weatherhead MBA students!