[wenc]

From a career perspective, there's definitely a best-before date, after which an MBA does not buy you advancement. It seems that the optimal period for most people is after about 5-8 years of working experience.

Get your MBA too early, you come without practical perspectives.

Get it too late (once you reach senior management or about a decade of managerial experience), and you don't really need it anymore. Your real-life experiences have already exceeded what an MBA has to offer.

In most places, acquiring an MBA doesn't automatically lead to a pay increase or promotion. You still have to work for those. That said, an MBA may break some glass ceilings.

[kumarvvr]

> Get it too late (once you reach senior management or about a decade of managerial experience), and you don't really need it anymore. Your real-life experiences have already exceeded what an MBA has to offer.

Is this generally true? Just curious. So as a person in a senior management position, if I read a good selection of books or watch a bunch of videos, would that make me on part with an MBA education?

[wenc]

I will let folks in senior management comment on this.

This was advice I received from folks in senior management.

As with everything else in life, it depends.