David Gerard wrote:
2009/4/25 Charles Matthews
Which rather ducks the point that where you go to graduate school would still matter enormously. Why _are_ people hired in the basis of MBAs?
I have a friend who's discovering that MBA is the degree after Ph.D if you don't want to be an academic. He says it's like doing flung monkey dung as a second language. Learning how to treat people as things for a living. I suppose that's shibboleths. I'm sure that's appallingly unfair to MBA degrees.
I've always interpreted MBA as "Master of Bugger All". Recent news items here have suggested that students in such programmes have the highest proportion of plagiarism and other forms of academic cheating. I suppose that that is what it takes for a successful business career.
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