MBA: Ist die Luft raus?

Der Economist lässt kein gutes Haar an den einst so selbstbewussten MBA-Absolventen, den Glücksrittern des modernen Finanzmarktkapitalismus': But in 2010, for the second year running, tens of thousands of overqualified MBAs will emerge with nowhere exciting to go. A very few will land jobs in investment banking, but those who want grand jobs in big companies or consultancies will be disappointed. Increasingly they will go crawling back to their old employers to do pretty much whatever they were doing before for pretty much the same money. As the efficacy of a business school is measured according to the salary one gets when one finishes, both students and employers will question whether it is really worth the $160,000 that a top MBA costs. Na gut, sagt sich nun der Leser, dann ist das nun mal ein kleines Tal in der Bergkette des MBA-Glanzes. Indes, er wird sogleich belehrt: This is not going to be a little recessionary dip. It will be a more fundamental reappraisal. The magical myth of the MBA has for some time left the facts behind. In future, those who stump up will do so because they want to learn the skills…