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I wonder what business culture would be like if the MBA had not been invented? Even twenty years ago, the MBA was beginning to have a real impact on the way that businesses and other large organizations were managed. Today, using MBA graduates has become so essential that large corporations have their own MBA programs, or organize MBAs under their own banner.

Before this multi-subject education, most managers came from either a financial or an engineering background - the two major areas in product oriented organizations in the pre-marketing days. This meant that what we refered to as management was largely about administration and control.

Modern management is much more about planning and enabling, allowing people to know their role in the organization and then giving them the resources and the space to get on with it - well this is the ideal anyway. MBA education gives graduates the tools to do this job, and the understanding to be able to implement it in the organization they are working in.

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