Comments on: Survived Cyber Monday – Who Needs an MBA?? Experience!

By: Tropical MBA – Spent a Couple Days at the First One!

Tropical MBA – Spent a Couple Days at the First One! — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 06:36:40 +0000

[...] isn’t a traditional MBA (see my blog post who needs an MBA) but I think is a great name “tropical” for the idea of work anywhere, and MBA that we [...]

By: Go Big or Go Home

Go Big or Go Home — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 03:35:57 +0000

[...] if anything its like I had said, this is my MBA. And I am building a global network. Finding myself. Because when it comes right down to it, I have [...]

By: mike

mike — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 14:58:20 +0000

hey Dave – you ever wrote that blog entry? would like to read it

By: David Ho

David Ho — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:26:02 +0000

Now I’m going to have to write a lengthy entry myself on the issue. I have a lot buried around the issue of education vs. experience.

By: Interview with Friend, MBA student, Jonathan Conte | Happiness in Pursuit

Interview with Friend, MBA student, Jonathan Conte | Happiness in Pursuit — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:01:42 +0000

[...] survived cyber monday, who needs an mba [...]

By: Miggity

Miggity — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 23:01:00 +0000

thanks for that Piotr. I can see your point and I do think MBA is neccessary for some…

wonder if we’ll get some more perspectives!

By: Piotrek

Piotrek — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 19:06:00 +0000

So here it is: your argument for experience vs MBA is great. Valid points. One goes to get an MBA to get started in something that you already do. Basically an MBA is a document that shows that you’ve proven yourself. that you have been through school and you’ve proven that you can get things done. Tons of work, upcoming deadlines, working with variables, such as other people. So you have this document that says you’ve got an MBA that shows others OK. NYU or BU or whatever gave this kid an MBA. He is serious, not some joker, not some scam artist, I can give him a loan, I can give him a job managing, I can risk this and this to take this kid on, give him a chance because he has a degree.

You are getting all this experience through NYBS. I don’t know if all of it but you are getting a lot of it. You are dealing with. Your workload is like tests. Except where someone gets a bad grade for a mistake, you can lose $$$$ – those are your incentives. You don’t need an MBA cause you don’t need a loan for NYBS. You don’t need to get the job of CEO of NYBS cause you’ve already got it. You don’t need teachers to guide you because you’ve got mentors and friends (although – who knows how good they are )

the things that you don’t get are:
- friends and connections made at MBA program that lead to business or personal relationships
- some of the lessons that you will have to learn the hard way – legal issues, opening up yourself to liabilities, figuring out where your liabilities lie and how to best prepare yourself for those liabilities, so when they come to sting you have a plan. – dealing with stress, learning from peers

other than that – experience is just as valuable if not more valuable than an MBA

with that said – no experience to start with – I’m going to study for the GMAT . you – you don’t need to