Why study an MBA?
Today, the MBA program, Master of Business Administration, is by far the most demanded graduate program for young professionals from different parts of the world. Some are enrolled in this program in order to earn a better salary, others for wanting to be managers of a great crime, and others, because they believe that if they fail to do so will be on the side of the road.
Why study an MBA? It depends on each one, each who may have their reasons and may be very valid. In this article we do not intend to "formalize" the reasons for studying an MBA, but if we believe that it is important to give some lights on because a professional should study an MBA.
The first thing is to identify that professional, who should consider an MBA, and that "who" can be any profession, it can be - preferably- manager, accountant, economist, you can be an engineer, architect, doctor in medicine. This "who" is someone who seeks to grow professionally, have greater knowledge of the business, is an entrepreneur, want to be directors of companies, you might want to be a consultant, entrepreneur, or just go in the MBA a way to have a higher salary. This does not mean that in a single professional there is the sum of some or all of these reasons mentioned.
Why the described above are reasons for studying an MBA? Because the MBA program is designed to give the student a series of tools that allow you to -if so proposed and what works dedicated to it, and not by magic- to realize any of the situations described in the previous paragraph
Currently the MBA provides a general knowledge and in detail about how it works and you have to run a company. Those who wish to study an MBA, is because mainly seeks to internalize on the machinery that moves both inside the company and its environment. The different areas that make up an organization are analyzed and studied in detail through the case method that allows the student to develop their capacity for analysis of both the organization and its challenges in front of the market and its competitors, putting the debate a series of real situations of the Company and its directors and that possible solutions can be found.
The leadership skills of the student highlights during the program, either through teamwork and its influence on the same, your participation in class that is essential, this is where you confront the ideas and the positions of each one. The true enrichment of the class of an MBA program is the involvement of students during case discussions or presentations of research work, because it appears that knowledge which is not found in the books because it is based on the experience of each one, what makes it unique.
The team work, class discussions, the intervention of each student, the exposed in front of their classmates, men and women who come from different universities, who occupy different positions in companies a more recognized than others, but companies to finish. All of this makes during the development of the MBA program, each student -depending on your ability of communication and persuasion- go building friendships that are becoming very important networks of contacts, since then, the months, it is very likely that each of them is to occupy a position in the company to what it was before the start of the MBA, which makes it a possibility for many things such as business, work, friendship, referred, partner, etc.
having an MBA and converts it to one in a privileged, in someone who has a knowledge that few can have, for various reasons, such as for its cost and its demand and dedication. Have an MBA is a responsibility, is to have learned how to make decisions and the consequences of this, how these decisions can impact both within the organization and in its surroundings, on customers, in the society itself.