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RE: MBA for database people

From: Mark W. Farnham <mwf_at_rsiz.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 13:18:55 -0400
Message-ID: <KNEIIDHFLNJDHOOCFCDKGEEHFCAA.mwf@rsiz.com>


True to an extent. But I personally take people with MBA's from Tuck, Wharton, Sloan, Stanford, Chicago, and a few other schools seriously as a starting point. But figuring out your opportunity cost to return to school when you already are a professional in business (DBA is business administration with a technical twist in many, if not most, situations) is a very trickly problem. If understanding business operations, accounting, finance, logistics, marketing (bleah!) or other B-school topics to be a better DBA is your goal, pick the most effective means to acquire the knowledge. That may well be community college to get you started followed by book larnin' on yer own. If maximizing your lifetime earnings is your goal you have to research actuals from the candidate schools versus your expectations from your current career plans. But then you are indeed probably talking about a complete career change, and a significant component of the anticipated earnings profiles of graduates of the various top drawer programs is the effectiveness of the placement systems at the school. Taking off two years to immerse yourself in a serious B-school is a huge break from technical currency, so be sure that is what you want before you do it.

If your organization has an artificial "masters required" hurdle level for some positions, then get the MBA or some other masters degree that interests you the cheapest way you can that doesn't involve fraud.

good luck!

mwf

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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org]On Behalf Of Juan Carlos Reyes Pacheco
Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2004 12:44 PM
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Subject: Re: MBA for database people

Hi Ryan

Business administration is like dba, the degree is like an ocp now, this gives you basic knowledge but don't give the real knowledge, an ocp is better than nothing, but that doesn't convert you in a real dba. There is some "hidden" books that makes you really understand business administration, practical and very easy to read. The problem is Business administration makes you believe you know about every thing when you really don't know except an introduction of evrey thing  and that can cause you do serious mistakes. For example about fraud you can read J.Comer, the same you have to read constantly about psychology, industrial engineery (times and movements) , etc. etc.
I think anyway this will be usefull, but remember an MBA is only the introduction, you have to read lots of books, like in the databaes you have to test, I have read more than 50 books and thanks to them I have a more real idea but this is still not enough, choose books based on real investigations, people who got what they say, and avoid theotheretic books. Several business week best sellers books are excellent.  You can start reading "what they don't teach in harvard business mba" from Mark M., it is old but is really nice.



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