HERE BUSINESS SCHOOLS GO AGAIN TRYING TO JUSTIFY THEIR EXISTENCE
I am not against schools, but I am against schools that believe they are capable of magic.
Harvard Business School and Brigham Young are again out there trying to justify their existence. (See my previous blogs on business schools and their attempt to develop courses on risk.) My son who works and lives in Italy sent me a CNN article in which some Harvard Business School and Brigham Young professors undertook a study (from what I can tell of questionable scientific validity) to discover the characteristics of innovators. Surprise, surprise, they discovered that anybody can learn to be an innovator, and implicit in that, for a mere $90,000 or more they will teach you to be an innovator.
These are the same guys who demonstrated a remarkable inability to teach their students how to avoid being overcome by the same human characteristics that created the Tulip Bubble of the 1600’s.
Why does this sound like those infomercials that are programmed for people who cannot sleep and attempt to convince them that if you buy my book and follow my plan you will be making $100,000 a month and be able to sleep again?
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