Posted on 10/04/2007 11:56:42 AM PDT by SirLinksalot
From my personal experience, having an MBA helps in terms of personal development and in ‘all else equal’ situations when applying for jobs, but, as a Business degree is somewhat generic, it is how you specialize that makes a difference.
Focus on your field, and if you are pursuing an MBA, also work on a PMP certification or something that shows you have specialized knowledge and skills.
I wonder.....does Steve Jobs have an MBA? Bill Gates? the Gooooogle guys?..........
Of course you know the answer is NO to all three right ?
In fact Jobs and Gates were college dropouts.
Exactly...........
But .. I think that people who waste their time getting high degrees, are bound for success. They are not only intelligent, but they have good common sense, instincts and the drive to succeed.
Unfortunately, I also know some *professional students*. They stay in school, getting more-and-more degrees, so they don't have to go out and try to make it in the real world. They like to think of themselves as great intellects, and brag about their degrees .. but none of them have ever accomplished anything by using any of their degrees. My husband calls them "educated idiots".
One last thought. Women need to get their Bachelors. If women ever expect to make enough money to support themselves and be truly independent .. then they need to get an education. Women need to know that they can make it on their own, if they have to.
I’m finding more and more that the people who are set on hiring MBA’s are the people with MBA’s. Once an MBA gets to the top of your company, you can expect the MBA to become a job requirement.
What really hurt the MBA was lack of a certification. MBAs should have had certification testing much like CPAs etc.
While a “professional” journalist may disagree, I have found that people with MBA degrees generally know something valuable regarding finance, operations and working in groups under pressure to solve complex business problems.
When I look at the twenty-something children of my friends, I see that the ones with MBAs have triple-digit incomes. And that many of the ones who only earned “soft” BAs or “soft” MAs are still trying to “launch”.
I gather that the author of this cheap-shot piece has a “soft” degree himself and that his envy of the success of others has led him into a quagmire of wishful thinking and self-pity.
Would you recommend a new business undergraduate to immediately apply to an MBA program, or would you advise that he/she work for a few years first before going to MBA school ?
Don’t forget Richard Branson.
So the article is saying that you don't learn anything useful about running a business in business school? Isn't there some sort of body of knowledge that is required to run a large corporation? Maybe not.
Michael Dell also. Want to make it big? Then get after it as soon as you can rather than coasting along in our leftist madrassas called universities.
I’ve got mine and I’m glad I did.
The value of an MBA is not the credential. The value is the knowledge you gain when getting the degree. A “top business school” may offer a “credential” but the most valuable MBA to the business may come from any good accredited program. It is self motivation, ethics and wisdom that makes the MBA not the school.
I don’t believe the MBA is obsolete. Perhaps if Harvard is more interested in diversity than quality, it is Harvard that is obsolete.
btt
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