I agree but it's not that you won't need these things but that you don't know when or if you'll need them. For a professional MBA that's taken over a departmen

I agree but it's not that you won't need these things but that you don't know when or if you'll need them. For a professional MBA that's taken over a department, it's not so much that they won't pay you to learn what's not definitely part of the job but that they can get away without doing so. It appear superficially to be the low risk option. It's the same reason that manufacturing gets outsourced instead of invested in as a core competency that sets you apart from the competition. To a lot of people anything that makes the numbers go in the right direction is what's important. They'll even pretend that the sole fiduciary duty is to raise short-term profits at the expense of long term value. When so many of the world's largest corps are now hollowed out marketing operations reselling generic products, it's hard to argue against using the latest trending framework.