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Generally speaking, studying math, English, computer science, or other subjects is considered to contribute to one's knowledge of those subjects. Is there some
by wanorris 15y ago
Generally speaking, studying math, English, computer science, or other subjects is considered to contribute to one's knowledge of those subjects.
Is there some reason to think that studying business will not contribute to your knowledge of business?
- Locke1689 15y agoNote: this is all hearsay. The worrying thing I have heard about MBA programs is that many spend their time studying traditional businesses which essentially sell mass-produced physical widgets. I can note a lot of things different about technology companies but one of the most important, I think, is that technology companies don't follow traditional physical manufacturing processes -- knowledge work doesn't fall especially well into the assembly line model. I would agree that studying business should ostensibly help one understand business, but it doesn't immediately follow that studying Industrial Age business confers understanding of Information Age business. To those with MBAs, how am I wrong here?
- wanorris 15y agoI don't have an MBA, but lots of other businesses follow a knowledge work model more closely than an assembly line model. Some obvious examples include an investment bank, an advertising agency, and a TV network. While I can't vouch for business school curricula, I would think that a business school that only performed cases studies in a narrow range of industries would simply be a poor (or alternatively, a specialist) business school.