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Clickbait headline and buried lede. This paragraph summarizes what the primary driver is: > World-wide, the number of M.B.A. applications was flat from 2017, p
by WisNorCan 8y ago
Clickbait headline and buried lede. This paragraph summarizes what the primary driver is:
> World-wide, the number of M.B.A. applications was flat from 2017, partly because of an increase in students looking to pursue their degrees in Europe and Asia, according to the GMAC survey. Applications surged 8% to schools in Canada and 9% to schools in East and South Asia.
Canada surging by 8% is not because schools in Canada are suddenly better than US counterparts. It is because of US policy and rhetoric under Trump.
The relative loss of talent wanting to work here will hurt us. Consider that the CEOs of Google and Microsoft are all foreign born holders of MBAs.
Edit: removed Elon Musk from MBA list. He studied business as part of his undergrad from Wharton.
- vowelless 8y ago> CEOs of Tesla I'm fairly certain this is false. He has an undergraduate degree from Wharton and has expressed multiple times how he prefers to avoid hiring MBAs.
- flexie 8y agoMusk doesnt have an MBA. But yes, Google and Microsoft hired MBAs as CEOs when they ceased to innovate at the same rate as before and started to be just ordinary companies defending a monopoly.
- harshalizee 8y agoBoth Google and Microsoft CEOs have engineering degrees alongside their MBAs
- x220 8y agoMusk isn't a trend, he's a celebrity-cultural-icon data point.
- dv_dt 8y agoA portion of the whole value of an MBA is the networks, and why pay into a network with people within a nation that has an uncertain policy regarding foreign visitors and business people.
- huac 8y agoMusk was not in Wharton. He studied economics in the College of Arts and Sciences, so never actually studied business (yes, I know I'm nitpicking)