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MBA holders really get a hard time. There are so many different types of MBAs. Hard to pigeon hole all of them.

Sure you cannot teach someone to be an entrepreneur, however there are many important disciplines you can gain from studying a business degree. Most executives hold an MBA - although this may be simply to speak-the-speak with others at that level.

Sheryl K. Sandberg (COO of Facebook) holds a MBA. Zuckerberg went to a world renown business school (albeit he dropped out).

Maybe you only need an MBA hire when you have gone public/IPO?

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Mark Zuckerberg has never been enrolled in a business school, let alone a "world renowned business school."

Okay, maybe not in the business school, but he was certainly within an organisation known locally and internationally for their business school.

He enrolled at Harvard in September 2002. He dropped out in 2004. He studied psychology and computer science. Harvard Business School is ranked 5th top MBA Uni by The Economist.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Zuckerberg#Harvard_years

http://www.economist.com/whichmba/full-time-mba-ranking

Having worked on campus at CIT which has a very highly regarded Business school and the rest of university tended to look down on them as having "won second place in life" to borrow an old quote from Cecil Rhodes.

I would bet that 90% of non B school students at elite unis look down on the business school

Every one did envy them there funding though back in 81 or so I remember talking to my opposite number at the business school and her saying "oh that new HP color computer we have another 40 to unpack and set up" :-)

Harvard also has a world-renowned Med School, so Zuck must be something of a doctor too.

The truth is, Zuck is a Harvard drop-out hacker entrepreneur like Bill Gates, nothing more, nothing less. Mere vicinity doesn't add anything to his education.

Did you go to a university with a business school? There's no crossover. One's an undergraduate college and the other's a postgraduate college. Absolutely nothing in common.

A friend of mine likes to say: "Don't confuse Sloan with MIT."

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