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>>and having an MBA from a top-5 school gives a person a huge advantage. Certainly. There's a saying that having an MBA from Harvard will guarantee you at leas
by enraged_camel 11y ago
>>and having an MBA from a top-5 school gives a person a huge advantage.
Certainly. There's a saying that having an MBA from Harvard will guarantee you at least an interview anywhere in the world.
The problem is that the vast majority of MBAs did not get their degree from Harvard, or even the other top 4 schools. They got their MBAs from regional universities or no-name business departments.
- onesixtythree 11y agoYep. There's a reason why people in technology complain about the "Damaso Effect". Even though those Harvard MBAs get mocked by "real programmers", they get the last laugh because they decide what most of those programmers work on. All of that said, the networking opportunities drop off rapidly, even from Harvard to Stanford or Stanford to Wharton, much less out of the top 5. The education is the same, and the academic quality of the students is probably better at non-top schools, but you're not meeting people who are so loaded and connected that they'll hand out sinecures and venture funding (which are two forms of the same thing, but that's another discussion) to their drinking buddies.