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I'm finishing up year two (my last year, yay I think) of a full time MBA (in a part time program) and pretty much picked my concentration from the get-go. Like locdogg said, there's usually a set of "core" courses that all MBAs have to take regardless of concentration, and from there it fans out into specific areas (Marketing, SCM, Gen Fin, Corp Fin, Entrepreneurship) for electives. There really was no "declaring" a concentration other than just taking the courses in the tracks you were interested in. Our Degrees will state concentrations, but I guess in a way what's important is what goes on the CV. A concentration probably looks a little better if it's in the field of the job you're applying for than just stating a general MBA.
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Modern Life Is War posted:Thanks for your help guys. It's like that for most of us and our cost accounting core course. It's a requirement, but honestly there's only maybe two people in the class who actually enjoy it and do it for a living.
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Modern Life Is War posted:How's everybody's semester going? Halfway through my final semester. Destroying the competition in our capstone course (basically a degree-encompassing business simulation), and enjoying my negotiations class. Investments is boring as hell, though, but I need to take it.
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Taaaaaaarb! posted:*gasps for air* HOLY poo poo! That sounds like a "real" MBA class to me. Do you think you'll never have to do team building exercises and networking at a real job? When you get in to financial statement analysis and data analysis and supply chain analysis courses, you'll wish you were back doing team building exercises.
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Is anyone going to the QS World MBA Tour in NYC tomorrow? I was just asked to attend as an alumnus and never heard of this site/company/event but apparently it's a global thing.
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BV posted:From an educational standpoint, an MBA is about teaching you a sufficient amount of technical knowledge to understand its business and strategic implications so that you can make managerial decisions on resource allocation. If that’s not what you’re after, then save your time and money and do something else. Basically this. An MBA isn't going to turn you into a quant. It's not a get down in the weeds degree, it's a how to manage the people who get down in the weeds degree. I did a Corporate Finance concentration for my MBA so they made our Fin classes were actually pretty difficult from a calculus standpoint, but the other 90% of my program was more about making strategic decisions using the information given, and how to manage people, not spreadsheets. And wouldn't you know it, most of my cohort were engineers who really couldn't handle the "easy" work (management, negotiations, strategy classes), but had no problems with the finance/accounting spreadsheet work. Fhqwhgads fucked around with this message at 14:26 on Oct 29, 2018 |
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