According to Drew Hansen, the Director of Editorial Business Operations at Forbes, Master of Business Administration (MBA) programs do NOT! Mr. Hansen does not see value in business school and has criticized that MBA programs are too concentrated on producing academic works rather than on “educating practitioners”. He argues that top institutions’ goals to produce leaders of the future is just rhetoric.
Hansen identified three main reasons on why this may be true:
- Leaders understand people. MBAs, on the other hand, boil everything down to numbers
- Leaders see the big picture. MBAs, unfortunately, learn about business in discrete part
- Leaders execute. MBAs focus on strategy, divorcing it from implementation
Even though MBA programs may be a distance away from where we stand in our current academics, we may question if Sauder provides us with enough related and comprehensive leadership skills that will assist us in succeeding in the business world rather than to fulfill our academic mandate of writing our next paper.
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http://www.forbes.com/sites/drewhansen/2011/10/04/why-mba-business-school-not-leaders/2/
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