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Yeah, I would agree that this presentation is overly focused on the finance side of an MBA, since that's what all of the negative studies linked seem to focus o
by ryana 17y ago
Yeah, I would agree that this presentation is overly focused on the finance side of an MBA, since that's what all of the negative studies linked seem to focus on.
Other things I found disingenuous:
3. MBAs Cheat. 56% of all MBA students cheat at Exams. Source: study by the Academy of Management Learning and Education of 5,300 students in the U.S. and Canada
Business students are only rivaled in their cheating by engineers. Should we make a presentation about not needing them either?
"The college level cheaters act more often in science and math classes. Interestingly, the college students most likely to cheat are engineering and business majors."
http://www.antonnews.com/columns/mcmillan/6872-cheating-in-high-schools-and-colleges.html http://www.antonnews.com/columns/mcmillan/6872-cheating-in-h...
"Their investigation revealed that 82 percent of engineering students reported engaging in some form of cheating. Only business students, at 91 percent, reported cheating more."
http://www.prism-magazine.org/mar09/feature_01.cfm http://www.prism-magazine.org/mar09/feature_01.cfm
5. Can you name any successful, path-breaking, innovative company started by an MBA?
While I'm not going to spend too much time looking up a whole host of examples, but how about the company I worked with last summer? Flat World Knowledge is an open-source college text book company, co-founded by an MBA.
6. MBA Salaries Are Insane
This slide doesn't even mention MBAs. It refers to CEO salaries from 1991 when an MBA wasn't even a common degree.
Sure, there are plenty of douchebag MBAs who would add nothing to a company and are just out for themselves. But you will find these kinds of people from any walk of life and prejudicing yourself towards any group of people is going to do you more harm than good.