[guylhem]

Great post - point by point refutation of the "don't get an MBA".

One thing I would like to add - finding and filling the gaps in your knowledge.

Repost from "the don't get an MBA" thread : There might be an education bubble. There might be an anti-education bias - especially here. But even with the best online tools and classes, what you learn with a standard curriculum is just better - that's the sad truth, and it is even truer if you are a self directed learner and don't care about the grades. Case in point - I got interested in economics and started reading books - then followed online courses and videos from prestigious universities and so on. Purchased textbooks, etc. I worked seriously, but I soon realized that the freedom to dig on subjects I thought worth investigating was mitigated by the lack of common knowledge expected for advancing my knowledge further. You can look at that like a multiple dependancies problem - except that you don't know about these dependancies beforehand. With a traditional class, you acquire the same vocabulary, the same comparison basis and so on - and that's priceless. I have started taking classes, and I now realize that. I learn about topics I would have never learnt on my own and I realize 'yes, they could be quite useful'. Please realize I'm not even taking about the network or other benefits you may find in an MBA - just the actual knowledge. I haven't done an MBA (yet?), but I guess most of the commenters here haven't either - and haven't even tried and given up (which would then be interesting to know). So I wonder how they can judge about its pertinence. Before this experience, I was also imbued in delusions of "online learning that made everything possible". But there's a dependency ceiling - I've touched it. Personally, if I can enroll in one, I know I will.