Re: MBA hiring again?

rrcolby@xxxxxx wrote: 
http://www.usatoday.com/money/2006-01-18-mba-pay-usat_x.htm


What I find most amazing about this is that no one really learns
anything of value in b-school and many businessmen know it.

It's a glorified networking club with the Wharton, LBS, and Harvards of
the world leading the association.

An MBA is seen as giving credibility to the person who has one. I haven't met a manager who made better decisions, acted more intelligently, or was more civilized by having one.


So, why are the S&Es still touting their education as if it gives them
power?


It doesn't.

I've often wondered why, as an undergraduate, I was required to take the courses that I did, complete with the detailed theory I had to learn in order to graduate.

As a practicing engineer, most of my work could have been done by a graduate from a two-year technology school, with the most difficult aspect being having to look up an equation in a handbook and plug in the numbers. I didn't have to go four years to university just to do that. I mean, where, when, say, checking piping drawings, would one have to solve a second-order linear differential equation to ensure that things fit properly?

Even as a graduate student, I rarely made use of much of what I studied as an undergrad, though that, in part, was due to my changing disciplines for my last two degrees.
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