An Elite Business School Can Get Scotland Working On the Value of Education

Sunday HeraldJuly 11, 2006

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HOW much value is a Master of Business Administration degree? Not too much is the answer if you are Marc Benioff, now the chief executive of a company called Salesforce. com and a former head of the Oracle Education Foundation, the software company's charitable arm.

His is an interesting viewpoint given that Larry Ellison, the Oracle founder and CEO, has just withdrawn a previous plan to donate dollars115 million (GBP62.5m) to Harvard, which would have been the biggest ever donation to an institution of learning.

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An Elite Business School Can Get Scotland Working On the Value of Education

Benioff argues that MBAs in particular and business schools in general are severely lacking in preparing students for the real world of business and its wider responsibility to society.

In a recent interview with Forbes magazine, he said : "I really think the pr...

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