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Business Magazines: Breeze On Through To The Other Side

Strategy classes often look at popular firms at a crossroads and ask students to formulate a game plan. The problem is that in most instances, these cases are outdated. Imagine a group in the year 2000 being asked to examine Pepsi Co.'s strategy in the late 1990s! At the time, the company was dabbling in capital-intensive restaurants (KFC) and snack products (Frito-Lay) while trying to catch up to Coca-Cola. After years

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Business School Trap

All disciplines serve to prepare you for life, but none comes close to Business. An amalgamation of every function, Business School provides a framework to not only identify the problem at hand, but solve it as well. Business School teaches accountability and an understanding that everything has a cost: unless you can sell a product or offer a service at a profit, then your business will undeniably be forced to shut down. But this is only half the story.

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Do You Need a Degree?

The World Wide Web has emerged as the greatest library of all time, bringing a wealth of information to the fingertips of people around the world. In the meantime, conventional wisdom stated that education was the gateway to the good life. This reality has prompted academic institutions to scramble and offer their curriculum online. As a result, people are asking whether formal education is a prerequisite to the good life after all.

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Does School Matter?

Whether you were class valedictorian or not, once the ceremony is over no one will care who was chosen, so move on. After all, not all Heisman Trophy winners become the number one draft pick in the National Football League (NFL). In fact, between 1936 and 2002, only 16 have pulled off this feat.

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Why You Need a Degree

Everything you will learn in business school should be taken with a grain of salt. For example, some introductory classes spend considerable time proving a certain fundamental theory only to disprove it later. How lovely: you pay us thousands of dollars for an education so that at the end of the line, you can prove us wrong. Great business model! But aren't academic institutions non-profit enterprises? Of course not, so what are their purposes after all?

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