Youngest MBA?

Discussion in 'General Distance Learning Discussions' started by Malcolm Jenner, Jan 28, 2005.

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  1. Malcolm Jenner

    Malcolm Jenner New Member

  2. Fortunato

    Fortunato Member

    This was also discussed on the Business Week MBA forums. While I certainly applaud the young man's effort and think that it's incredible that he could complete the work needed to complete the Heriot-Watt MBA over only 3 years starting at the tender age of 14, I wonder if an MBA is very useful without the "real-world" experience needed to put the learning into context. Most MBA programs recommend students have a bare minimum of work experience before starting, usually 3-4 years. If this young man plans to use his MBA to enter the workforce immediately, I fear that he might find people hiring for entry-level jobs might consider him overqualified, while people hiring for jobs where an MBA is a prerequisite will think he lacks sufficent experience to be considered. I wonder what percentage of H-W students are earning their MBA as their first degree, and further, what percentage of those students lack formal work experience.
     
  3. nosborne48

    nosborne48 Well-Known Member

    Wait a minute. How old was that cat again? Three years old, maybe?
     
  4. Fortunato

    Fortunato Member

    See, the cat had relevant experience:

    3 years milk-lapping
    3 years advanced lap kneading
    3 years of purring

    It's all about being able to put the learning into context, people!

    :D
     
  5. edowave

    edowave Active Member

    I remember on the watercooler a few years ago some posted a poll on "how old are you?" One vote was in the category "16 and below", and I posted a comment something like, "someone must be joking around."

    I got a private email a few days later from this person explaining it wasn't a joke. He was taking to courses because his normal high school courses weren't giving him enough of a challenge.

    Apparently he is just one of those super gifted kids. I wonder how he'd do on the Apprentice? :)
     
  6. edowave

    edowave Active Member

  7. Ted Heiks

    Ted Heiks Moderator and Distinguished Senior Member

    If a candidate for employment thinks that age may be an issue, there is no need to use dates on the resume. Sounds to me as if he ought to get himself a DL teaching position at a good b-school (none of his students would need to know his age). Meanwhile, he should pursuing his DL DBA, which he could complete by age 20-22.
     
  8. edowave

    edowave Active Member

    Actually he is thnking about law school.

    However, even with the MBA, he still has to finish high school first.
     
  9. Casey

    Casey New Member

    In the United States? If so, he'll probably need to complete an undergraduate degree program first.
     
  10. edowave

    edowave Active Member

    He is Canadian. He has mentioned he will go on to do an undergrad, but is not sure where yet. I'm sure he will have no trouble getting into Harvard, Princeton, or Yale.
     
  11. aic712

    aic712 Member

    Wow,

    and I thought I would be young getting one @ 25
     
  12. Johann

    Johann Well-Known Member

    I can see it now. Ted Heiks will post his 93rd "Holy Thread Necromancy" comment. :smile:

    Unfortunately, this story, about two obviously very intelligent boys, is a cautionary tale as it has some degree-mill connotations. I was looking for the story of another very young (Canadian) Heriot-Watt grad and couldn't find it. I landed on this thread and Googled around to see if there were any more very youthful MBA grads in the last few years. I came upon the 2011 story below - which mistakenly identified these boys as MBA grads. They were not grads - they were still in regular grade-school and had also finished a semester apiece of grad studies in an MBA program.

    11 and 13 yr old boys become India’s youngest MBA graduate | Incredible Dot Com

    A partial quote:

    Neel Joshi, 13 and his brother Deep, 11, class eight and class six students of Thakur Vidya Mandir School at Kandivali East in Mumbai are on their way to become India's youngest MBA graduates as they have finished their first semester MBA with distinction from an institute affiliated to a U.S. varsity. The teen prodigies are pursuing their MBA from the Indian Management School and Research centre (IMSR) affiliated to the University of Northeast Virginia, reports Bangalore Mirror.

    What the article doesn't say, is that "University of Northeast Virginia" doesn't really exist - never did, except on a server at Maharashtra, India. It's a fake. Too bad such intelligent boys and their parents were taken in by a degree mill.

    Apparently, regular schools to which they applied, in India and UK, would not admit them to MBA studies at their age, especially considering they had no undergrad degrees or work experience. Perhaps Heriot-Watt might have. We'll never know.

    Sad. :sad:

    Johann

    P.S. "Neel wants to become a cardiac surgeon, while Deep wishes to be a pilot. The boys' father Ajit Joshi is a civil engineer."
    So why did they want MBA degrees in the first place? Parents' idea?
     
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  13. Ted Heiks

    Ted Heiks Moderator and Distinguished Senior Member

    Holy thread necromancy, Batman! An eight year old thread!
     
  14. AUTiger00

    AUTiger00 New Member

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