Comments on: Gurus, MBAs and other useless people http://kenmccarthy.com/blog/2006/06/08/gurus-mbas-and-other-useless-people/ Internet marketing Fri, 12 Aug 2011 07:43:19 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Peggy http://kenmccarthy.com/blog/2006/06/08/gurus-mbas-and-other-useless-people/comment-page-1/#comment-123 Peggy Tue, 25 Jul 2006 21:35:40 +0000 http://kenmccarthy.com/blog/?p=49#comment-123 Ken, I have an MBA from the University of Rochester and, while I agree with you about the marketing content not being very useful, I found the Finance, Accounting, Organizational Behavior and business case studies we did to be very useful. The marketing focused on traditional concepts like product life cycle, etc. that are interesting, even illuminating, but don't really contribute to knowing how to market anything. My point is that there are useful facts and skills you can learn within an MBA program other than marketing, so you may not want to write off the degree entirely! Peggy Ken,
I have an MBA from the University of Rochester and, while I agree with you about the marketing content not being very useful, I found the Finance, Accounting, Organizational Behavior and business case studies we did to be very useful.

The marketing focused on traditional concepts like product life cycle, etc. that are interesting, even illuminating, but don’t really contribute to knowing how to market anything.

My point is that there are useful facts and skills you can learn within an MBA program other than marketing, so you may not want to write off the degree entirely!

Peggy

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