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Online MBA ForumFriday, July 14, 2006MBA Groups
I'm interested in what Failing Economist has to say about the power of peer group pressure to help you to carry on with your MBA. I do agree that this can be a major influence in the decision to carry on with a degree. Of course, this can work two ways; if the group that you are studying with is not supportive, or if you do not fit into the norms of the group, this also can be a contributing factor to your decision to quit.
In fact your "fit" into the student body for an MBA is a factor in your level of success. Most MBA schools work hard to select students that they think will fit together, giving a group where there is sufficient diversity to make discussion and group work interesting, but also that there is some glue to hold the group together, thus making sure that students feel the group motivation. Usually this works, especially if the program committee is experienced, but there are some people who slip through the mesh. # posted by Mary @ 11:23 PM
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Yes, I’ve heard of this "getting the mix right" in MBA programs. I’m not quote sure where I’ve read about it but somewhere. There’s a definite attempt (in a general MBA program that is) to make sure that there are a decent mixture of people. Not too many engineers, not too many accountants or lawyers, not too many from the same industry.
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The aim is to make sure that the class becomes the group, rather than a series of cliques. It’s entirely possible to strain analogies too far (which I often do) but this is similar in the desired out come to military training. There’s no real point in being able to march up and down in step: except that the process of learning how to do so makes you a group. # posted by failingeconomist : 3:08 AM
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