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MBA Life at Yale

Tuesday Nov 29, 2011

Business Insider has a Day in the Life for an MBA student at Yale. Seems Yale has eliminated the traditional silo system of mgt, mkt, accounting for an 'integrated' curriculum covering the nine things a manager needs to know. 

Observation

I see this is pass fail.

At the end you will note she is doing everything in a group on a laptop hello group power point. 

I wonder, is there any individual accountability here?

Yale produces folks like Al Gore, George Bush, Tommy Lee Jones, Gerald Ford, John Kerry, Kerry and Bush were both C average students. My point is that Yale and other Ivy League schools are not so much schools are fraternity sororities, get along and you go along to an expected fraternity in the outside world. 

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2 responses to “MBA Life at Yale”

  1. Cammy Cuoco Avatar
    Cammy Cuoco

    It seems to me to be more about the image and perception of those coming out of big schools like Yale, than to be about the actual quality of knowledge attained by students at that school compared to others. I do not understand parents willingness to pay such outrageous tuition fees in hopes that students will come out either better learned or have a university name that looks better on a job application. It seems to me the smart investment would be to send your student to a local college yet have more emphasis on tutors in the field in which the student wishs to be in. In a day and age where anyone can become successful, almost overnight it seems, why not put more effort in specialized knowledge. I think this would allow the students to focus on that big idea, product, or service that could really explode.

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  2. Dennis Elam Avatar
    Dennis Elam

    Cammy
    Precisely, Yale is a fraternity sorority,not an education.

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