以下是引用BankerSjtu在2006-8-24 23:32:00的发言:I am working for a top US software company in China, where lots of management members don't possess an MBA degree and some of them even just hold bachelors. In my experiences, currently in china, a top US MBA dgree is much more undervalued. More important things are networking and how many products you can sell for the company. Good sales can earn one million normally in big firms. If those sales guys discard their money-generating jobs to pursue an mba in US, you will lose all the things they have now, networking, customer base and the potential to get promoted. And If you want to get senior management positions, you just need to stay within a single company as long as possible. Sometimes juicing up a new mba gradute sucks. It's true that salesman can make a lot of money. Even in US companies, it's the same situation. However, people have different goals and expectation of themselves. A money generator sales position might be desired or rated high by someone, but may not be considered as a decent position by others. Not all MBAs are at the same level, even though they graduated from the same school. I saw some MBAs are very very so so, but I still believe there are a lot of MBAs are really capable. I think, on average, those US top MBAs are smart people. They work on a strategic level, rather than a salesman. It's not proper to compare a US top MBA with a salesman only in terms of how much money they can make. The career growth oppotunity in China maybe different from US. Staying in one company waiting for growing chance might work in China, but not necessirily works in every company. Otherwise, why so many big US firms are recruiting top MBA graduates to their company for higher level positions every years? In China, networking talks, which is the same in US. No matter what, people go for an MBA have different reasons. It's not appropriate to exaggrate the value of an MBA degree nor to undervalue it. |