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Article: Are MBAs a waste of time? It's a little-known fact that engineers don't have to study for the ubiquitous MBA to improve their management skills. Michael Kenward looks at the alternatives available. (Feature).
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- The Engineer
- Article date:
- January 25, 2002
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A long with offers to bring wealth overnight, junk e-mail has taken to delivering invitations to acquire an instant MBA. This phenomenon is a sure sign that the Master of Business Administration has joined those fake university diplomas and religious qualifications being peddled from PO boxes in deepest America.
But even when an MBA is genuine, some people in industry find it less than impressive. As one senior executive recently observed, it is much easier to teach management to a trained engineer than engineering to a trained manager.
What, then, are the alternatives for engineers who want to hold their own when the company's MBAs start to throw around ...