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by maukdaddy 5800 days ago
MBAs are sophisticated thinkers that can create high quality business plans

HAHAHA This person has clearly never been to an MBA school. If only my peers were sophisticated thinkers. I'd say less than 10% of MBAs are sophisticated thinkers (and by extension great problem solvers) and those 10% are the ones you WANT to hire. The MBAs who can just churn out business plans - forget those.

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I have a sample size of one school to pick from, but I have to agree with this. The overwhelming majority of MBAs are quite normal in their outlook. I graduated from the #1 ranked MBA in Canada and I believe it's top 20 in the world (depending on whose skewed, biased ranking system you're using) and I met only 2 or 3 people who thought "big". Most people I met were getting MBAs because they wanted to move up in the organization or move away from engineering and get into management.
Jason Freedman attended Dartmouth.