The
media reports that some major companies are paying a fee to colleges
for the right to then hire a few of the schools’ M.B.A. students as
non-paid interns for a relatively short term, in order that the
students be in charge of management or marketing
projects. This makes little managerial sense.
The
purpose for taking an M.B.A. course is to learn about business. I
have always had misgivings about what can be taught at an advanced
level in graduate school about business; most of what you learn is on
the job. But here, the student is generally being placed in a
responsible position right from the start. Such as, for example,
taking over the marketing of whole brands, etc.
Why
not have a conventional internship program without the university fee
involvement and the M.B.A. mumbo-jumbo? It all appears to be a school
marketing gimmick, rather than an instructional program.
And
why the assumption that M.B.A. students
are qualified to take over such responsibility from the start? (See the Earl J. Weinreb NewsHole® comments.)
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