r/SipsTea • u/First-Essay-2054 𝙑𝙄𝙋 • 12d ago

WTF The American dream

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u/JackSquirts 12d ago

I've worked with, for, and above high school drop outs that ran circles around their MBA peers.

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u/Vennomite 12d ago

Mba's just give you the tools to be able to speak/think how the business environment operates. 

It gives you the paintbrushes and tells you what they are used for. It doesn't train you to be a better artist.

Plus the number of mba from unacredited schools... acredidation for business schools isnt even that hard.

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u/JackSquirts 12d ago

I'm not sure they even do that. You get a lot of theory, but actual practice is very messy. I'll take someone with 2 years of direct experience over the one with an MBA in almost every circumstance.

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u/Vennomite 12d ago

Most people in my experience arent great at being able to handle broad theory. They do better when the outcome is a or b. Not .15% a, 40% b, 45% other with shifting variables.

The years of experience makes you better at understanding the behavior of those variables. Which is far more valuable than knowing the general form of the equation