Do you think having an mba makes you an intellectual ?

[Lardlizard]

Not talking about me obvs 🤣

What do you mean by "an intellectual"? If you mean someone who is well read, interesting to talk to at dinner parties, etc., then no, the typical MBA course does not produce such a person.

A masters of business administration? No, not really.

Hmmm no.

Eh? No. Why on earth would it?

No, it’s more like a professional qualification than an academic one in my experience. A DBA perhaps is. Why do you ask?

I think it's become the new finishing school for rich kids rather than the really accomplished

No

No. On top of academic qualifications it's just a sign that you are interested in business. Not particularly rigorous and certainly not a sign of scholarship in a holder.

I have one, I am no intellechewal

God no.

No

It's an expected qualification in some jobs e.g. banking, commerce but it shows you have a theoretical knowledge of the subject. Intellectual? No.

Absolutely not, it is all about business, not anything remotely intellectual.

No it doesn't.

It does not make you an intellectual at all - just 'up' on business stuff.

...no.

No

I just started one! And no, I don't think so.

No. I know 3 MBAs. None of them are particularly intellectual.

Ha ha no.

I got a PhD 30 years ago.Then, an MBA was a professional qualification rather than an academic/"intellectual" one.

Typically, no. However the most intelligent and well read person I know has one (not me!).

Rather depends on the person who holds it and the focus of the course, there are lots of people who do them, from lots of backgrounds and for lots of reasons. So yes, you can be an intellectual and have an MBA, you can be intellectual and not have a masters of any kind. It's all down to the individual.

Disclaimer-I'm an academic with an MBA.

It's a no from me

I have an MBA. It felt almost vocational. It requires some intelligence to manipulate theories and the critical analysis approach but that's common to all master's degrees. But intellectual, no I don't think so.