Les Stewart is an independent Canadian franchise researcher. He founded the WikidFranchise.org site and the FranchiseFool weblog. Stewart was an expert witness for Ontario's first franchise law. He has his MBA and BA from The University of Western Ontario.
Some faculties of business administration try so hard to demonstrate that they are in the leadership development business that they become crippled in their own self-importance.
Ivey’s MBA, while it has a fine reputation, does a very good job of pumping up the self-confidence (arrogance?) of their young graduates.
It’s a matter of taste, is what I am getting at. As a grad myself, it did take about 5 years to stop being “full of myself”. I sometimes cringe at how naive and self-important I was back then.
When I first listened to this UTube, I thought it was a joke and a dirty trick by those trying to denigrate the MBA program at Ivey. Whether ignorance or bad taste, it was certainly bad “rap” and a bad commercial.
I think the MBA programs and the MPA programs and the law schools ought to emphasize courses that stress ethics and democratic values to be applied to the commercial world instead of just greed and money and “anything goes” in the name of profits.
I blame the academic world for not even trying to stop the rampant fraud of the past thirty years.
Didn’t make it past 24 seconds.
Michael,
In 1999, Gillian Hadfield was kind enough to explain to me the difference between a professional and an academic degree.
Dunning-Kruger
Les
Not that I believe a degree means very much, but “A Degree of Self-Loathing”? I’m afraid I miss your point entirely.
Eugenia,
Some faculties of business administration try so hard to demonstrate that they are in the leadership development business that they become crippled in their own self-importance.
Ivey’s MBA, while it has a fine reputation, does a very good job of pumping up the self-confidence (arrogance?) of their young graduates.
It’s a matter of taste, is what I am getting at. As a grad myself, it did take about 5 years to stop being “full of myself”. I sometimes cringe at how naive and self-important I was back then.
Les
When I first listened to this UTube, I thought it was a joke and a dirty trick by those trying to denigrate the MBA program at Ivey. Whether ignorance or bad taste, it was certainly bad “rap” and a bad commercial.
I think the MBA programs and the MPA programs and the law schools ought to emphasize courses that stress ethics and democratic values to be applied to the commercial world instead of just greed and money and “anything goes” in the name of profits.
I blame the academic world for not even trying to stop the rampant fraud of the past thirty years.
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