In this video I want to talk to you
about the
ever looming question of do you really
need a business degree.
Okay. And specifically in this video I
want to talk to you about one element of
or one value proposition of a business
degree and that's the learning aspect,
but there are two major value
propositions
or or two major things that you get from
a business
degree from a formal business school,
is knowledge acquisition that is learning
right
and then there's the career opportunity
generation recognition
aspect. So how does going to business
school improve or help your career
prospects?
Okay. Now i'll start by
in this slide we're talking about
learning, so i'll start by
acknowledging that there are many ways
to learn
business practice there are many ways
that if
your objective or purpose behind um
going to business school is learning.
There are perhaps ways that you could
have learned
more or or even better in some cases
than going to business school and we
have a different video on
options for business education but there
are
unique aspects that a business school
does offer,
okay, and generally that the way that
they
offer learning or business education
does
have a ton of value in that way. Okay.
In a separate video we're going to talk
about the career
benefits associated with business school
and they are significant
that's a unique type of advantage that
is very difficult to get in other places
so that is a true advantage there.
So let's start first by talking about
how business schools offer knowledge
acquisition or
learning as its value proposition. So to
start with you have
um you know a combination of things
integrated into business school it's
soft skill as well as hard skill.
As we talk about in a different video
the
what is business education video we
explain that business school is a
combination
of of technical skills and then
higher order thinking skills. Okay.
We refer to those collectively as the more
technical process driven skills as being
training where
the higher level thought type practice
the
exposure to theories,
the learning to apply things in various
contexts
that's more along the lines of what we
call education, so it's a combination of
those two aspects the training and the
technical ability
with the higher order thinking aspects
of education.
So that alone is unique lots of the
other sources will be
one or the other and it's difficult to
integrate them effectively
together outside of a a very
specialized practice setting the way you
have in business school.
Okay. So anyway that combination of what
they offer
is a unique value proposition, and then
how they go about providing the learning
uh
education and training is unique.
So to start with business school has a
established structure, right, as far as
the courses you take,
and what order you take them ,how it's
presented the time
frame, expectations for various
learning objectives, things like that.
So the structure associated with the
business school
program, the courses you take the the
sequence, the combination,
is all
well thought out well planned by people
who have a lot of experience in that
field
and you know has gone through
lots of uh changes in development over
time as
as the education process and
institutions of higher education have
changed
so has the curriculum and all those
aspects.
So a lot has gone into that a lot of
collective knowledge and
uh so that aspect of the structure is
important. Second,
the professors and staff in the business
school
provide a unique combination of higher
based order thinking on subject matter
and technical skills and knowledge on
others.
You're going to find more of the
technical skill and
process driven knowledge with your staff
members like in
centers and things like that or your
your lecturers that may be in the
practice
teachers rather than researching
professors, and then your concept driven
higher order thinking you're going to
find
in many of your researching professors
those that dig
deep into very specific topics and
are well versed in how to present you
with these concepts and scenarios that
make you apply it but also help to
internalize it in a way that you can
combine it to
situations that aren't scripted right,
so it allows you to take that next step
of
thinking outside of the box in a way.
So once again the combination of having
those unique types of individuals
who are tasked or charged with
delivering the
the information that you'll acquire in a
specific
manner or fashion, once again is a
distinct benefit of
business schools, you on your own would
have to
combine those resources in different
ways and may not be able to get the
same aspects from say experiential
learning
outside of the business school or on
simply
you know reading text or watching film
or video on the subject matter.
Okay. Next is you're putting a room with
students who are learning similar things
but they come from diverse backgrounds
diverse points of view and diverse
interest in that way.
So oftentimes you'll learn as much from the
individual sitting beside you
in the classroom as you do from the
professor at the front of the room or
from your textbooks,
oftentimes they can be your study
partners, they can be
the people you bounce ideas off of,
they can be the people that
motivate you and cause you once again to
work diligently towards a specific topic
or subject matter,
and then then there's the experience
aspect like the experiential learning
aspect that
that business schools are able to
integrate into courses or
extracurricular outside of courses and
centers and
and whatnot within the school of
business or higher education.
So all of those things taken together uh
are
a collective benefit and we address each
of those individually in
separate videos, the structure,
professors and staff, students
and then experiential learning
particularly internships
as part of the business school education
process, but once again just
understand that business schools offer a
very unique
value proposition in terms of learning.
In a separate video we are going to talk
about
business school career objectives,
what they try to
achieve for you and the benefits that
you can hope to
take away from getting a degree from
a business school in that manner,
so take a look at that video do you really
need a business degree
slash career opportunities
for more information on that.