Maybe it’s time to second-guess the Harvard MBA and its ilk

In a recent op-ed, Financial Times editor Andrew Hill takes issue with the methodologies of the MBA programs offered by the Harvard Business School and other schools worldwide. In this, he aligns himself with The Golden Passport author Duff McDonald and Desautels Professor Henry Mintzberg, who says that the HBS doesn’t train its MBA students to be good managers, but is rather “putting them on a fast-track they don’t deserve to be on.”

Mr. Hill states that one of the problems is the MBA case-study paradigm, which turns individual CEOs into hero figures and generally fails to push for thinking outside the box.

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