And with a click of a 'send' button my MBA is complete
Posted by Ian Holsman
I just submitted my final assignment "An analysis of WalMart’s leaked brand positioning" and i’m done.
Looking back over the last couple of years, I think doing the course was valuable, as it opened my eyes up to different things that I didn’t know I didn’t know. I wish I didn’t "waste" some of the electives. What made them a waste? shitty lecturers. One night one of these "brains" spent 2 hours teaching people how to use a calcualtor to do NPV calculations.
The other thing is I think the way they teach subjects should move a bit more with the times. Closed book exams? I mean.. who (besides ANZ bank) does not have full internet access nowadays? or not use IM?
I think the worst example of this came through with a economics exam question that was worth 20%.
Some thing along the lines of
‘describe the XYZ theorem’ or ‘explain the 2 major inputs into ABC law and where you would use it’
where XYZ was one of about 50 different theorems we learnt. what pissed me off is that I forget the name of the theorem, but could have explain it for 3-4 pages when I knew WTF they were on about.
anyway.. i’m happy that I did it.
now the bigger question:
Am I going to get a ROI on the $$$ I spent doing it and the time spent sitting in a classroom above what I would have got putting that in the stockmarket or as a deposit for a small apartment.