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Home -> Community -> Mailing Lists -> Oracle-L -> RE: MBA for database people
True to an extent. But I personally take people with MBA's from Tuck,
Wharton, Sloan, Stanford, Chicago, and a few other schools seriously as a
starting point. But figuring out your opportunity cost to return to school
when you already are a professional in business (DBA is business
administration with a technical twist in many, if not most, situations) is a
very trickly problem. If understanding business operations, accounting,
finance, logistics, marketing (bleah!) or other B-school topics to be a
better DBA is your goal, pick the most effective means to acquire the
knowledge. That may well be community college to get you started followed by
book larnin' on yer own. If maximizing your lifetime earnings is your goal
you have to research actuals from the candidate schools versus your
expectations from your current career plans. But then you are indeed
probably talking about a complete career change, and a significant component
of the anticipated earnings profiles of graduates of the various top drawer
programs is the effectiveness of the placement systems at the school. Taking
off two years to immerse yourself in a serious B-school is a huge break from
technical currency, so be sure that is what you want before you do it.
If your organization has an artificial "masters required" hurdle level for some positions, then get the MBA or some other masters degree that interests you the cheapest way you can that doesn't involve fraud.
good luck!
mwf
-----Original Message-----
From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org
[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org]On Behalf Of Juan Carlos Reyes
Pacheco
Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2004 12:44 PM
To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: Re: MBA for database people
Hi Ryan
Business administration is like dba, the degree is like an ocp now, this
gives you basic knowledge but don't give the real knowledge, an ocp is
better than nothing, but that doesn't convert you in a real dba.
There is some "hidden" books that makes you really understand business
administration, practical and very easy to read.
The problem is Business administration makes you believe you know about
every thing when you really don't know except an introduction of evrey thing
and that can cause you do serious mistakes.
For example about fraud you can read J.Comer, the same you have to read
constantly about psychology, industrial engineery (times and movements) ,
etc. etc.
I think anyway this will be usefull, but remember an MBA is only the
introduction, you have to read lots of books, like in the databaes you have
to test, I have read more than 50 books and thanks to them I have a more
real idea but this is still not enough, choose books based on real
investigations, people who got what they say, and avoid theotheretic books.
Several business week best sellers books are excellent.
You can start reading "what they don't teach in harvard business mba" from
Mark M., it is old but is really nice.
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