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I'm a Stanford business school grad and harbour no fanatical love for it. I penned a public letter to my Dean [1] five years ago suggesting changes to a curricu

I'm a Stanford business school grad and harbour no fanatical love for it. I penned a public letter to my Dean [1] five years ago suggesting changes to a curriculum I saw as myopic. But this article strikes me as a diatribe against capitalism rather than business school alone. And the author's track record of railing against an industry he taught in for years sounds a bit like a publicity effort. Fwiw, my experience at Stanford was very positive and I found some of the academics to be quite useful even ten years later. And my classmate are incredible and many remain close friends and advisors. [1] http://www.curiousjuice.com/blog-0/bid/120424/Reform-Stanford-Business-School-or-keep-paying-lip-service-to-motto http://www.curiousjuice.com/blog-0/bid/120424/Reform-Stanfor...

kolbe 8y ago
> my classmate are incredible and many remain close friends That's a more significant aspect of business school than the classes themselves. In fact, I suspect the curriculum are designed more to maximize the creation of friendships (i.e. fairly easy and communal) than it is to actually fill people with knowledge.
- dba7dba 8y ago
  An acquaintance of mine who graduated from USC MBA said basically you will do well if you can carry on good conversation over beer. And another who went to Harvard Law said everyone at Harvard Law viewed folks at Harvard MBA as idiots.
Mauricio_ 8y ago
>this article strikes me as a diatribe against capitalism rather than business school Exactly the same reaction I got.