Comments on: The myth of the well-rounded MBA, part 1 https://the-fuqua-experience.com/blog/2009/12/07/myth-well-rounded-mba-part-1/ Duke Cross Continent MBA Mon, 05 Jul 2010 20:16:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Naveen Venkataraman https://the-fuqua-experience.com/blog/2009/12/07/myth-well-rounded-mba-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-329 Naveen Venkataraman Mon, 07 Dec 2009 19:45:53 +0000 https://the-fuqua-experience.com/?p=1640#comment-329 I personally feel experience trumps education. Maybe thats the reason the VP still gets to keep his job? I personally feel experience trumps education. Maybe thats the reason the VP still gets to keep his job?

]]> By: Randy Zwitch https://the-fuqua-experience.com/blog/2009/12/07/myth-well-rounded-mba-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-328 Randy Zwitch Mon, 07 Dec 2009 16:33:50 +0000 https://the-fuqua-experience.com/?p=1640#comment-328 Cool, write it up! Mine is a little less specific than your topic...the articles that I read have to do with the purpose of the degree itself. Should the MBA degree move towards general education, or should it still be catered towards specific knowledge. Can it somehow be both? Cool, write it up! Mine is a little less specific than your topic…the articles that I read have to do with the purpose of the degree itself. Should the MBA degree move towards general education, or should it still be catered towards specific knowledge. Can it somehow be both?

]]> By: Ian Comandao https://the-fuqua-experience.com/blog/2009/12/07/myth-well-rounded-mba-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-327 Ian Comandao Mon, 07 Dec 2009 16:25:31 +0000 https://the-fuqua-experience.com/?p=1640#comment-327 i'm actually in the middle of writing an post right now about the purpose of the MBA degree going forward. i feel that it's going to be way harder to get a middle management job, especially when your VP has less of an educational pedigree than you do... you don't have the work experience, but you are trained to learn - however you can't get his position. so what do you do? start your own company? when you do start your own company, will you hire someone with a "bigger, better" degree than you do? it takes a bit of pride-eating to do that. and what does that leave each and every company? in a self-reinforcing loop of mediocrity? i’m actually in the middle of writing an post right now about the purpose of the MBA degree going forward. i feel that it’s going to be way harder to get a middle management job, especially when your VP has less of an educational pedigree than you do… you don’t have the work experience, but you are trained to learn – however you can’t get his position.

so what do you do? start your own company? when you do start your own company, will you hire someone with a “bigger, better” degree than you do? it takes a bit of pride-eating to do that.

and what does that leave each and every company? in a self-reinforcing loop of mediocrity?

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