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Business schools are not failing at the education of entrepreneurship. The argument just doesn't pass the sniff test. I look back at my B school classmates and
by damoncali 15y ago
Business schools are not failing at the education of entrepreneurship.
The argument just doesn't pass the sniff test. I look back at my B school classmates and see that many of them have started businesses successfully just a few years past graduation. Some bootstrapped, some raised VC. Some were in tech, some not.
Like any business, the various flavors of entrepreneurship require lots of knowledge of things that can't or shouldn't be taught in school. This is by design. The same thing is true of i-banking, consulting, CPG marketing, and the other traditionally MBA-dominated fields.
You can't teach entrepreneurship. You also can't teach toothpaste marketing or oil wildcatting. You can teach business fundamentals that will work anywhere and that will give you a leg up at the vocation you choose to follow.