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"We don't teach you anything, you just teach each other. ... we just facilitate".
Good that this isn't the teaching methodology used with airline pilots.
MBA's were intrinsicly programmed & primed to serve a greed-driven, capitalistic, laissez faire-breathing consumer society. Unfortunately such socities tend to self-destruct for all the obvious selfish & predatory reasons, as we have been witnessing of late.
If you ask me, I'll say the basic MBA credo needs to undergo radical changes & a paradigm shift, if it's going to succeed in the immediate future.
I didn't hear any compelling support, if any support at all, to your assertion in the above first sentence ("...hard work, nothing compared to....").
Start by highlighting the "demands" of each type of program, and let me emphasize the program, not the student's schedule - that is irrelevant in your argument.
I expected much better from The Economist.
As opposed to the centralized greed driven, statist based laissez faire societies that have succeeded en-mass. Let's count them shall we...
You apparently don't do much global competitive analysis work. It's just a bed of roses doing business in all those non-greedy, statist/socialist societies who exhibit no hint of selfishness or predatory instinct.
I see more ethics and morals in American capitalism than your "Nirvana" nations.