MBA - The flip side

 As a professor professes, Marketing is not general knowledge for sure, but I still don't agree that its specific knowledge, Its more of common sense + sensitive thinking + intuition.

95% of what we learn in MBA is not seen/implemented in the market.

People lack the flexibility to mend and adopt the models learnt in college.

Industry is projected as a battle field before joining, but I feel it is a game with lots of breaks in between, the one who takes a longer break always looses.

MBA is learning a lot less in lot more ( time/money )

There are not more than 11 subjects an MBA seriously needs to learn to get in to business.

Having a prior work experience definitely helps. I really mean it.

Diversity of back grounds in class is a hyped phenomenon, many a times it wastes time of many who already knew certain topics. Benefits are picayune.

Indian MBA colleges, lack quality "FACULTY", I know I am making a huge proposition here! My college also has only 10% geniuses, 40% Good, 20% average and 20% bad and 10% worst faculty on board. The top 10% only command respect.

Very few doubts are clarified in the class, the veneer of belief only becomes clear after "research"

In MBA, copying from one source is called plagiarism but copying from many is research. One needs research most of the times, in presentations, assignments, case studies etc.

Only 50% of what we learn in MBA is useful, I wonder which.

As a professor, first thee should brand self.

MBA helps understand reading a pink paper better. MBA is a Jargon dictionary.

MBA also teaches you how to knot a tie :)

MBA without Internet can't be thought of! Present generation wonders how they did MBA when there was no internet.

Half of the case studies solved during MBA, can be solved even if you are in 10th class.

MBA is actually not taught and also not learnt in the right spirit.

All you find yourself in, after completing MBA is little knowledge, lot of debt, married ex girl friend, more pressure and 404 page not found error.

PS: I ain't a looser, but one of the toppers in my class; I missed a strike at IIMs by a whisker BTW. Never bunked classes, didn’t flunk any paper, never goofed up in interviews, GDs etc but now feel what's life without any excitement!, join the brigade if you are one like me.