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Most schools teach about successful leaders and companies like HP as case studies on how to do it right. But most schools have pretty low graduation standards
by parsimo2010 5y ago
Most schools teach about successful leaders and companies like HP as case studies on how to do it right. But most schools have pretty low graduation standards and most MBAs end up misapplying the lessons they were taught.
So their reaction would be positive, like "HP was such a good company! I love all of their business principles and I'd love to build a corporation known for good engineering, sound financial management, and promoting technically competent leaders." And then most promptly do none of that, focus on short term returns, and run a company into the ground.
- ghaff 5y agoMBA programs are also about more than business strategy, leadership, etc. In fact that's a fairly small part of an MBA program--at least as an explicit topic of study. Depending upon what people are concentrating on, there's also financial accounting, cost accounting, market research, forecasting, organizational behavior, pricing, economics, operations/operations research--to pick a few courses in a typical program off the top of my head. In general, my impression is there's also more focus on "experiential" learning than both case study and non-case study lecture.
- samstave 5y ago>>>Most schools teach about successful leaders and companies like HP as case studies on how to do it right. But most schools have pretty low graduation standards and most MBAs end up misapplying the lessons they were taught. Probably the most succinct setup for the MBA hate I have ever read. Classic.