今回は（卒業してから大分時間が経過していますが）MBAに関する自己反省的な記事を書いてみました。日本語で書くと少し抵抗がある内容ですが、英語にすると（書きにくい内容も）あまり抵抗なく書くことができます。
ただ、MBAは自分の人生において非常な貴重な経験だったと感じています。
【English】
Today, I want to take a somewhat self-reflective look at the MBA experience.
A typical MBA program covers a broad range of business disciplines — finance, strategy, marketing, organizational behavior, and human resources management. Among these, we’ll often find courses on entrepreneurship and leadership. Back when I attended business school, many programs were starting to expand their curricula to include such topics, partly as a response to criticism that business schools had placed too much emphasis on quantitative subjects.
However, studying entrepreneurship or leadership does not guarantee that you will become a successful entrepreneur or an effective leader. Some even argue that these qualities cannot truly be taught in an MBA classroom.
If I think about it more broadly, the same holds true for other areas. Learning strategy does not automatically mean you can craft great strategies. Studying finance does not necessarily make you a skilled CFO. In fact, in many finance courses, exam questions are based on clearly defined assumptions, and there is a single “right” answer. But in the real world, determining which assumptions to adopt is often far more important — and far more difficult — than performing the calculations themselves.
When I consider all this, I can’t help but wonder: is there any domain in which the MBA truly guarantees mastery? Or is the value of the MBA less about learning definitive answers, and more about gaining perspectives, frameworks, and networks that we must still learn to apply on our own?
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