Master’s of (Barely) Nothing
Jul 18th, 2004From Business Week comes this review of a book about how CEOs have been promoted as saviors in MBA programs, and how this is failing the business community.
The Masters of Business Administration is one of higher education's most respected degrees, both a touchstone of managerial ability and a ticket to the higher reaches of Corporate America. Now, though, comes an apostate — a respected professor of management studies who challenges the very basics of business education. In the scathing Managers Not MBAs: A Hard Look at the Soft Practice of Managing and Management Development, McGill University business professor Henry Mintzberg says today's B-school is essentially a sham.MANAGERS NOT MBAs
A Hard Look at the Soft Practice of
Managing and Management Development
By Henry Mintzberg
Berrett Koehler — 464pp — $27.95
