Posted on 10/10/2021 1:41:27 PM PDT by RandFan
A friend sent me this video. He also happens to be a medium sized employer and after watching this he said he would NEVER hire a Harvard MBA.
I was wondering if any Freepers would have the same attitude?
Take a Seat in the Harvard MBA Case Classroom
I wouldn’t hire anyone who went to Harvard.
You may recall, the media was quick to point out his bottom half finish at Harvard while praising Barry ObaMao as a brilliant Harvard Law graduate who was editor of the Harvard Law Review and went directly from there to a faculty position at the University of Chicago Law School.
Of course, they failed to mention Barry's academic achievements had nothing to do with either as he had none and both these "accomplishments" were handed to him because of who he was.
Yeah....they hyped Obama so much that I had to convince someone that he hadn’t taught law at Harvard.
Image in bygone days MBA programs admitted people without an undergraduate degree but had quite a bit of real world experience and showed great promise.
I worked at the Maritime College in Maine, the faculty in the professional departments all have about 10-15 industrial experience but only a MA or MS degree and a few only have BA or BS degrees but 20 or 30 years experience runing businesses, sailing as a captain or chief engineer. Oh and our graduates are getting two and three job offers.
I got mine nearly 40 years ago. The cases we analyzed were chock full of data for us to dig through. Profs weren't satisfied with shooting from the hip and mere opinions. They ripped you to shreds if you didn't have data and analysis to support your conclusions. Creating those cases from real-life business situations involved a lot of work, and learning from them was a powerful process. When I applied that learning to real-life business, I was quickly humbled by how little I knew. On the positive side, it taught me a lot about non-linear thinking and working through ambiguity and complexity. Great life skills.
Every Harvard MBA I have known as run existing businesses into the ground.
No doubt. Some of my classmates were likely supporting it, but too early in their careers to have been the decision makers. Earning an MBA in that era led some to over-estimate their ability and wisdom. It was a relatively new and shiny credential in a heady time of yuppies and dinks. Ethics took a back seat for altogether too many. Some did good work with their knowledge; others made a mess for others to clean up. I've been out of it for years for a number of reasons and don't miss it.
In a Mba program or any other masters program you have to have a B average to graduate, or you once did.
Sound like your Maritime College grads. Had a friend in business that graduated from the Merchant Marine Academy, probably the least famous of our military academies. But the guy really knew his stuff. Just having lunch with him was like taking a professional course in shipping.
True. It was that way with my MBA program from Minnesota State. Got a C in a stats class from a horrible professor who, as it turned out, really couldn’t teach and gave nearly everyone in the class a similar grade. I was steamed at the time, because I was more than halfway through the program. But I had enough A’s in other classes that it really didn’t affect me.
I was only a fly on the wall in the financial district. I repaired TTY machines and digital work stations for the phone company back then. It wasn’t until the mid 90s that I gained a true appreciation for the 20 & 30 something MBAs in my company. (By this time I was working as a cable splicer for NYNEX) They had decided that the reason the company wasn’t performing the way they wanted was all those 50+ year old workers in the field. So they made me (and many others) an offer I couldn’t refuse. I accepted that offer and just waited for my name to be called. It was, in June 99. Of course by that time NYNEX was no more. It had been taken over by Bell Atlantic. All those super smart MBAs had been let go and Bell Atlantic was offering us 50+ year olds who had accepted the buy-out all kinds of goodies to stay on another two years. I would have rather stayed for those two years, but I had my hands full taking care of my folks. Once they were gone in 2001, I was free to finally leave Fun City and move to America.
So ya see, even though I goof on them, I am very grateful to those young MBAs who made it possible for me to retire at 54 and get out of that hell hole.
The twists and turns of life can be very strange.......but sometimes things just seem to work out.
And I'm grateful for the skills I gained, as well as the good pay that lasted long enough to sock something away. I agree, life has twists and turns, and it carries some unexpected blessings.
You can always tell a Harvard man. But you can’t tell him much.
Perhaps in your mind but no other.
Took you three days to come up with that?
What?
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