MBA
also referred to as: mbas
3 statements across 3 episodes · 0 bullish · 2 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement May 25, 2018 by Dan Ariely · across every show →
Everything said about MBA, oldest first
May 25, 2018
Recruiters secretly prefer hiring candidates who will cheat for the company
“We gave MBAs resumes of potential job candidates. And in those resumes, those people were either told, said that they were, it was said about them that they were either dishonest in their personal lives, like to the significant other. They were dishonest at wo…”
Nov 24, 2020 negative
Martin: MBA Programs Indoctrinate Students to Be Narrow 'Tool Matchers'
“They come in indoctrinated into the notion that my job as a business person is to figure out into what category this problem that I'm facing falls and then apply that tool. Ah, this is a finance problem, so I will apply the capital asset pricing model, or this…”
Mar 9, 2021 negative
Kaufman: Borrowing for an MBA is illogical if you hold the role
“It didn't make sense for me to quit my job and borrow a bunch of money, go back to school, you know, to come back to the kind of job I already had. I just wanted to learn what I needed to know to succeed. And so the personal MBA became a project where instead …”