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Let me be a data point. I have a BSc in Comp Sci, run my own company(ies), and did my MBA at a "good" school (Schulich School of Business). Here's, in my opinion, THE best takeaway a technically minded person gets from an MBA: there are people in this world who don't think like you, don't solve problems like you, and don't have the same interests, but you're often working shoulder to shoulder with them so best you learn how to deal with them.

MBA projects are more often than not group work and in your group you'll have a marketing person, a financial expert, an electrical engineer, and maybe a teacher who wants to change careers. It's like herding cats sometimes to get people on the same page, not because they're dumber or slower than you, the Python wiz, but because they're used to solving problems differently.

For me, this was the best part of my MBA. I really improved my sensitivity to others' understanding of issues and became more "personable".



Good point.

However, I feel that I obtained a similar education in teamwork by working odd jobs throughout my law and computer science studies.




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