An MBA doesn't always deliver Mastery

Australian Financial Review (Executive Education), 5 September 2002 p. 21

Andrew Horsley, Director of Horsley & Company, an established Sydney senior level executive search consultancy, says having an MBA has almost become de rigeur. "In the past decade there has been a proliferation of MBA courses of varying standards," he says.

Horsley got his MBA from the Australian Graduate School of Management while the institution was still in its infancy. Although he has extensive consultancy experience and an undergraduate degree in politics, he says that he couldn't have made it to where he is today without an MBA.

"Personally, and as a professional search consultant, I value them [MBAs] highly, but you have to remember to look behind the degree at the individual, at their technical skills, their past experience, their creativity to see holistically what they will bring to an organisation"