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Originally Posted by Superman
Sometimes I think your perspective is right on target. Like your suggestion to add a business master's to an engineering BS. And then at other times you seem to be thinking with a different brain. There are more reasons to study business than just bragging rights or a piece of paper. Someone said, and perhaps you, that business is its own specialty and this is true.
And someone bemoaned the tendency for employers to make managers out of engineers, and this thinking is common. For example, health care companies seem often to imagine that only doctors can administer an organization that employs doctors. That's not far from imagining that business analysts should advise patients on health care matters.
All in all, I agree that an MBA atop an engineering BS is a smart plan. There were several engineering graduates in my MBA program.
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my point was that MBAs in my experience seem to be no better at business than anyone else.
in fact, by and large, MBAs in my experience are fantastic at destroying businesses. and often they justify it with "i have an MBA, you don't"
my personal take is that MBAs often misunderstand what value means to the customer and why they want it. tend to treat it the same on everything and fail to understand that each market is inherently different, with small details that vastly effect outcomes. YMMV.