In articles published recently in Business 2.0, National Post, the Chicago Sun-Times, and the Chronicle of Higher Education, Stanford Business School Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer stated that you may be just as successful in your career if you do a two or three week boot camp on business basics instead of a two-year MBA.

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Professor Pfeffer analyzed 40 years of research on the economic value of an MBA degree. He concluded that it does not guarantee a successful career or a higher salary. His research was published in the Fall 2002 issue of the Academy of Management Learning and Education. Stanford graduate student Christina Fong was his co-author.

Dr. Pfeffer is an expert in organizational behavior and has taught at elite American business schools for over 30 years.

He says: "The simplest advice is that if you do not get into a leading business school, the economic value of the (MBA) degree is very limited. But there is not much evidence that the actual education does very much. Obviously, if you get admitted to Harvard or Stanford or another elite school, the very fact of your admission is going to increase your worth in the job market. Employers who hire brand-name MBA graduates do so on the basis of the quality of the student body at the school, not whether the students have acquired specific skills or knowledge with their degrees."

He also said "Little of what is taught to students in business school prepares them for the corporate workplace. One of the problems is that much of the business school curriculum has remained unchanged since the 1960s."

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"U.S. schools have also become slaves to magazine rankings, leading them to develop coddling devices such as professor-written lesson summaries to bolster their "student satisfaction" appraisals. When students are relieved of any sense of responsibility for their learning ... they learn much less."

"A recent report from the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, the primary accrediting body in North America lambasted its members for maintaining a curriculum that is out of touch with modern business practices. It said that preparation for the rapid pace of business cannot be obtained from textbooks and cases" said Professor Pfeffer.

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