What Did You Learn In Business School?

Fascinating set of comments to a simple question posed at Econlog.

Here’s an excerpt from my favorite:

My situation was probably atypical. I was 5 years into a PHD program in political philosophy. Since I liked literature, I wrote long papers …

By the time I got to thesis time, I could not take it any more. …

Graduate school was everything I thought it would not be. …

So I walked across campus to the Business School, made an existential decision, and decided to change careers. I knew absolutely ZERO about business, including the cultural difference between academia and a business environment. …

… I learned there was a world where people actually made things … My entire personality changed from "know it all cynic" to trying to learn "how the world evolves" and advances. I learned technical things and big picture things. I woke up from a slumber.

…

Business School changed my life.

FWIW: I majored in economics in a militantly non-business arts and sciences college. I got my MA and Ph.D. there too. I didn’t set foot in a classroom in the School of Management there until my 2nd year of my Ph.D. program (and then it was an economics seminar). My first real experience with a B-school was my first job at The University of Alabama as a visiting assistant professor in the Culverhouse School. It was a shock, but I didn’t realize how big a shock until I left after 2 years and went back to an arts and letters college at The University of Utah. I agree with the commenter: business school changed my life.

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I also went to business school so what you're saying is very relatable. Business school also changed my life, you get to learn a lot if things that's very applicable in your day to day activities.