How long does it take to earn the Master of Business Administration qualification? One year of full-time study? Two years? I have just received delivery of two new books. One is a hefty, serious-looking tome called The 30 Day MBA. The other is a lighter, jollier number. Its title? The 80 Minute MBA.
Look on Amazon and you will find that a 12 hour, one day, 10 day, vest pocket, portable and fast forward MBA are all available as well. But it could be dangerous to be seen reading any of these books at the moment. Scapegoats are still being sought for the crisis in world markets. MBA graduates make a convenient target.
Some of them seem ready to condemn themselves. The journalist Philip Delves Broughton, who completed his Harvard MBA in 2006, has described his peers as a “swollen class of jargon-spewing, value- destroying financiers and consultants”.
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