M.B.A. Applications Decline at Harvard, Wharton, Other Elite Schools
Just an anecdote of my personal experience, since there&#x27;s generally a sense of uselessness for MBAs in tech and I held the same view until recently getting an MBA.<p>I was moving from engineering to product management and thought it would help my resume to get an MBA, but I was pleasantly surprised how useful in many other regards the process and learnings were.<p>For sure learning on your own, doing things, building product, is better than structured curriculum. But there&#x27;s something to be said for being exposed to a broad set of business information. When heads down writing code and building businesses, it&#x27;s hard to step out and learn this disparate knowledge unless you&#x27;re forced to by wanting to graduate. Maybe you&#x27;re more disciplined than I, but in my free time I wouldn&#x27;t dabble in accounting for instance, just wasn&#x27;t interested. The forcing function is surprisingly helpful.<p>I&#x27;m not claiming it&#x27;s for everyone, but I got a ton out of my MBA and would recommend. My situation was moving from engineering to product, had full time PM job, trying to start a side business, which now has had significant growth that I attribute a lot to my learnings from the MBA.