I have been thinking a lot recently (yes I do think-for those of you skeptics out there) of how business schools and their graduates are perceived.For those of you who took Global Strategy and remember the 2x2 matrices, I have put down my thoughts in an easy-to-read format :-)
So every school sells their graduates as A- smart as a whip, team-players. The professors know that the students in their classes are not team-players-they are obnoxious as hell. But, they do hope that in-between the sexual orgies in the French chateaus and champagne drinking in class, these students develop some basic skills and are reasonably competent i.e. they are B.
What the outside world sees are straight C. Absolutely delusional losers who think they are top management material.
PS: There are no "nice fools" in business school. Well maybe in the faculty-but those don't count do they?
3 comments:
Why have you put arrow marks from A to B to C? Is it because when one joins a firm he is (or at least perceived to be) at A. But as time goes by and he moves up the hierarchy, he moves down to B and then C? I think you are right. From my experience, most department heads are C.
-N
so the corporations are smart enough to know who is a nice fool...or is it just that these guys are not in demand...
Nice fools do not exist in B school based on my limited sample set!
-R
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