I have an MBA. It hasn’t hurt anything. I would imagine that there are better Master’s Programs out there but at the time, this one worked for me. As long as people are getting an education, I think that is what is most important. It is nice to see that so many people are getting an MBA that it is a problem. That is a nice problem to have for America.
I little self interest going on. So Hahvahd is the best, says the Dean of Columbia, but we’re in the top five, and after that it’s nothing.
A little logic would tell you that if the very high tuition and living expenses of Columbia and the implicit cost of taking leave of absence from work is worthwhile in terms of Return on Investment; that, a low tuition, part-time evening MBA from a decent school could also be worthwhile. Especially if your employer or some other sponsor is picking up the tuition.
Get a job where you make your salary convincing strangers to part with their money to buy something from you.
Do that for 2 years - and you have something better than an MBA.
I worked for a few world class, privately owned (2 of them were at one time the world’s largest in their field) companies, and saw them turned over to the MBA equipped sons of the owners and run into bankruptcy in 3 to 3.5 years. Based on my experience, my opinion of MBAs (and owner’s sons) is, shall I say, less than stellar.
I was in Paris with one of these self involved pukes who had just obtained his MBA a month earlier, and while walking through the city, he marveled at the architecture and said “How on earth could they afford to build this?” . To which, I replied “Easy, this was all accomplished before they had MBAs”. That let the air out of his over inflated chest.