We had a guest lecturer on 28th November who reminded me of what I expected from MBA learning; lectures packed with information, including frameworks, while focusing on real life situations and real challenges businesses face, along with suggested possible solutions. I must say that up until this point, this is the first time in the school year when I felt “ah, yes, this is MBA learning”. Seldom, there were moments where I felt that what I was learning was based on industry knowledge, mostly during the OPS1 sessions. But often, I felt that the learning I received was too academic, or provided no new solutions. I was hoping to learn new things; ways to solve problems in the industry. Majority of the learning we’ve been doing so far has just been learning frameworks and trying to apply those frameworks in business cases. I wish to receive learning on new ideas, be presented with possible solutions, and be challenged to create new solutions; do things that really make a difference in a business setting. In the working world, nobody will ask us what frameworks we used. They will ask: “how can we improve the present, what solutions do you propose, and how should we achieve it?”
And I must say, class discussions haven’t been helpful for my learning. I have not seen them as a good use of time. Nothing new is being generated in these discussions. I rather go read another article.