Should entrepreneurs get an MBA? By Mario Luis Tavares Ferreira
CMN 432, MBA, Management, Personal, Security No Comments »26th March 2009
I was reading a polemic if entrepreneurs should, or not, get an MBA and I would like to put forth my idea about the matter.
We are always learning and will continue until dead. There is always something that could be improved and, to figure out, knowledge will facilitate the process.
I agree that many entrepreneurs develop their business skills with blood, sweat and tears, as I did. I co-founded two high tech start-ups and, after 25 years of “bloody times” and two companies, I decided to get my MBA.
In theory, having a couple decades of experience in running a business, I should already know almost everything about business management and development. But, actually, getting the MBA, I learned, rooted and improved a lot of processes and knowledge that I was already using, and also, I learned a lot of new things (state-of-the-art techniques, theories, new writers, new strategies, new “gurus”, and so on). I learned all that, even being a compulsive reader of everything about management, strategy, globalization and entrepreneurship, and had read hundreds of books about the matter, before deciding to return to school. Read the rest of this entry »
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