Is MBA meaningful? (Why MBA?)

※Original blog was written in Japanese. I translated into English with Google translate.

First of all, I do not have an MBA, and I am not for or against. Although she is from the College of Business, she is ashamed to do more than study for credits. So, it's an insight that doesn't include real experience, but I want you to get along.

The other day, I wrote a blog about Is business management useful for business? . Similar to that topic, but the question of MBA should be divided. An MBA has a special curriculum / environment and status. (Certainly, business administration exists as an undergraduate school, but there is no curriculum that is as well organized as MBA, and it is not so specially regarded as a status. Even more, if you only have knowledge of business administration, you can learn by yourself.)

I said that this blog does not include real-life experiences, but the benefits and disadvantages I heard from the people I met directly who discussed MBA have influenced my thinking. Write it first. (Although discussed, some people do not necessarily have an MBA.)

MBA benefits

Status → At least a certain overseas position or more often has an MBA as a matter of course, so it is important as status
Common language of business → When discussing with business people in a top-tier environment, it may not be possible to discuss smoothly without knowledge of business administration
Environment → High level of people in MBA environment can be stimulated
Carrier change → I wanted to change from a manufacturer to a consultant, so I put an MBA in between.
People's connections → Being able to get to know the best people, so there is a possibility that they will be managed together, and it will be possible to exchange information when they happen.
Family business → inheriting a company managed by relatives, so as to acquire systematic knowledge of management
English → Reading a large amount of English in two years, and being able to discuss business in English (this does not apply only to MBA)

Next, I would like to summarize in a word the disadvantage of opposing the MBA.

It means "these advantages can be solved without MBA." This is, of course, obvious: without an MBA, you can succeed in your business, and there is probably no community to play just because you do not have an MBA.

In business, MBAs are often said to be useless, and are often stupid.

Often in business, when ridiculing a failed product, a reason such as "Why did the MBA think?"

But what about the status, which is the first benefit?

This seems to be an inevitable point in discussing the MBA.

When looking at an MBA as a solution, there are many goals and issues that can be solved without an MBA, but if you consider the MBA itself to be valuable, there will be situations where you cannot talk without an MBA. .

Of course, without MBA, it may be almost impossible to be cut off without saying, but it is quite possible that the treatment will obviously be different if you do not have it. This is probably rare in Japan, but if you are in a foreign country where academic competition is intense and educational status is important as a status compared to Japan, I think that this point can not be avoided, and this is the most important It's not an exaggeration to say that it's done.

Naturally, many people have MBAs overseas, and almost all executives on the "Members" page of the corporate site of overseas companies have a MBA. What surprised me was that there was a Japanese company that is actively expanding overseas, but almost all of the executives of the overseas branches of that company had MBA. This is not the case with executives of overseas companies, which does not mean that Japanese corporations have an MBA.Perhaps even at the overseas branch level, if the level of executives is high, and if you do not have an MBA in the first place, this is not the case. Even at the start line, I thought I might not have it.

And while the MBA itself is worthwhile, if the benefits listed can be achieved, the benefits of the MBA are tremendous.

(* As an aside, to write this article, I looked at some discussions in Quora as to whether an MBA was worthwhile, and found that there was many answers, saying a clear difference in salary (after taking the MBA)

By the way, it seems that "Why MBA" is emphasized in the MBA admission process.
I think this is a very important question that covers all the points described above.

This question means you can do anything now and most of the tasks you can accomplish without an MBA in the future. The MBA career itself is worth it. With that in mind, why would you want to come to MBA? That is the question. (Of course, if you say that the MBA itself is worth it and it will not be talked about without it, it will end at that point.)

Actually, I first wrote the MBA in this way, but if you look overseas, it is worthwhile to have an MBA again unless you have special skills that can be used overseas. I thought. Needless to say, emphasis is placed on what to do at the MBA and what to do after the MBA, but I realized that what could be gained from the MBA could be great. On the other hand, I don't think there is any problem that I want to solve through MBA and I don't have a clear career plan, so I don't think it is necessary at present.