Can the typical business school teach “entrepreneurship”?
Here’s what MIT Business expert David Birch says. Keep in mind, he’s the researcher whose research said that - in reality- it’s small businesses that create the most new jobs and serve as a shock absorper when the economy is hurting.
What DO those Business Schools Teach?
Quite a few business schools teach you exactly the opposite of entrepreneurship. They teach you to do the quarterly numbers for Wall Street, teach you to conserve, teach all the wrong motivations for being an entrepreneur, teach you to take something that is there and make certain that it does well on Wall Street. Basically, business schools teach you to work for somebody. Few people end up being the person people work for; most people end up working for someone. Being a good servant is what business school teaches the students. We can train people to work in entrepreneurial company and even develop their skill set to take a managerial role in an entrepreneurial company.
But that is not teaching them to be an entrepreneur. That doesn’t create a Michael Dell or an Anita Rodrick. Teaching people to work for entrepreneurs
is quite different from teaching people to become entrepreneurs.
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