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Based on anecdotal observations of several colleagues who have graduated from a nearby top 20 MBA school since I have known them, there doesn't appear to be any

Based on anecdotal observations of several colleagues who have graduated from a nearby top 20 MBA school since I have known them, there doesn't appear to be any correlation between an MBA degree and career success. The two who have since gone on to be very successful were already rising rapidly in their careers before they started the program. The other five were languishing in their careers before and have languished ever since. Most of them have fallen far behind the engineers who chose to spend that time honing their technical and engineering skills. I suspect that, had you never gotten an MBA but still demonstrated that same level of confidence that you claim, you would have achieved a similar level of success.

PakG1 14y ago
Unless we can have a proper test for that, it's difficult to tell. Compare the situation of a young high school athlete. May have all the right athletic skills and attitude. But perhaps that attendance into some special skills development camp is just what they needed to push themselves over the edge to the next level. It can't hurt that they're attending together with other young top athletes who will push each other forward. Aside from that, one of the only reason I'd ever attend an MBA school if I ever wanted to, was to easily develop a network of top-level A-players. It's easy to develop the network like that when top people are grouped together in the same place with the same goals. A top-tier MBA school is not the only place where you have that situation, but I imagine that it is one of the only places. That being said, there are a lot of reasons to not get an MBA, especially if it would not contribute at all to your goals.