读MBA到底有什么用

GE

）

的管理者们也只是说“来自哈佛

商学院（

Harvard Business

School

）的那些聪明的小伙子

们”。但如今，在哈佛商学 院

2015

届学生中，女性比例占到

4 1%

。过去几年，宾夕法尼亚大

学沃顿商学院（

University of

MBA

inspired

handwringing,

which

was

chronicled

in

a

1950

Fortune

feature

by

management

guru

Peter

Drucker

called

Graduate

Business School.

Among

the

critiques:

Management was about doing,

not

academic

study.

MBA

programs

created

princes

marked

for

the

top

who

knew

little

about

the

businesses

they

would

run.

Society needed entrepreneurs,

not

business

administrators.

What

was

the

purpose

of

an

MBA, anyway?

Such

questions

no

longer

made

universities

shy

from

business

programs

--

money

poured into them after all -- but

Drucker wrote that

no exaggeration to say that the

business

schools,

while

they

have won the war, do not know

what

to

do

with

their

victory.

The

business

schools

have

'arrived'

without

quite

knowing

what

their

job

is,

or

how

to

accomplish it.

How

can

the

businessman

know

his

function

in

society,

Drucker

wondered,

their

own

professional

schools

do

not know what it is?

Sixty-three

years

later,

some

things

have

changed.

For

starters,

women

--

completely

absent

in

Drucker's

piece,

Pennsylvania's Wharton

Schoo l

）的女性学生比例也一直

保持在

40 %

以上。

此外，如今

MBA

学生比

20

世纪

50

年代的学生更年长。德鲁克写

道，当时， “研究生通常直接来

自大学。就算他们有工作经验，

也只不过是 在夏令营当过顾问；

或者卖过订阅的《周六晚邮报》

（

Saturday Evening Post

）。

他们从未像成年人一样在成年人

的世界里生活过，也从未独立

过，总之他们缺乏商业经验。”

德鲁克对此并不满意。

六十年后，大多数商业课程都牢

记他的观点，现在都要求学生有

几年（三至五年）工作经验。福

尔德基金（

Forte Foundation

）

的执行董事爱丽莎?埃利 斯

-

桑斯

特说：“公司开始提出工作经 验

方面的要求。有工作经验会让他

们更加成熟。”福尔德基金与 各

大商学院和公司合作，以提高商

业职业中的女性比例。

但其他问题仍存在争议。德鲁克

对“皇太子 ”问题的解释是，在

商学院“有一种内在的倾向，即

商学院培养 出的人才目的是避开

竞争，直接进入大公司的高层，

而不是在与 公司其他人的竞争中

证明自己的能力和资质。”

这种说法很有道理。毕竟，除非

你认为读商学院可以比熬资历获

得更多，否则谁会愿意拿出工作

时间去上学呢？而且，对于那些

where

GE

(GE)

managers

talked

of

the

lads

from

the

Harvard

Business

School

--

comprised

41%

of

HBS's

class

of

2015.

Women

have

made

up

north

of

40%

of

the

University

of

Pennsylvania's

Wharton

School

for

the

past

few years.

MBA

students

are

also

generally older than they were

in

1950.

Then,

typical

graduate

student

comes

directly

from

college,

Drucker

wrote.

he

has

any

work

experience

at

all

it

is

as

a

counselor

in

a

summer

camp;

or

maybe

he

has

sold

subscriptions

to

the

Saturday

Evening

Post.

He

has

never

lived

as

an

adult

in

an

adult

world,

has

never

been

on

his

own,

and,

above

all,

he

lacks

business

experience.

Drucker

was not pleased.

Six

decades

later,

most

programs

take

his

point

to

heart

and

now

require

a

few

(two-five)

years

of

work

experience.

started

asking

for

it.

Companies started demanding

it,

says

Elissa

Ellis-Sangster,

executive

director

of

the

Forte

Foundation,

which

works

with

business

schools

and

corporations

to

increase

the

representation

of

women

in

business careers.

work experience matures them