Where did you get your MBA? I have heard that getting an MBA is more about the connections you make than what you learn. Which school would you recommend if someone wanted to learn all of those things and didn't care about the connections? Preferably somewhere without a 200k price tag.
It is popular to 'bash' MBAs, so everybody says that - in defense of the MBA. But I am fairly certain that most MBA programs will cover this stuff.
I did mine at the University of Tampa, but I don't think you need to necessarily go there to have the same experience I did.
Once you go with an open-mind, I would encourage you to take Econ, Accounting & Finance courses. You don't have to go nuts with these courses either, you can take the other management courses....but the ones that provided the most value to me are those.
Learning to think like someone on Wall Street - with respect to seeing the world as it is, not seeing it how I want it to be - is the most valuable thing I learned.
That being said, the connections are good too - but I am yet to have to draw on them.
Given that I am in the tech startup industry, I don't suppose they will help me much right now. But who knows what the future will hold.
Also, for what it's worth, understanding finance and not being intimidated by legal contracts is also very useful in a startup environment. Every dime I earn, I can visualize my financial statements in my head - which I guess is a good thing.
I guess the trick is to just want to learn these stuff, and in most reputable programs, you will.
It's easy to get into the "I just want to get an A" mindset - don't do that.
