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Feb172011

Too Many MBAs Spoil the Spoils

Australian Financial Review, 14 September 1993 p1, 35

"Fifteen years ago, because of their scarcity, there was a perception that MBAs could do anything, says Andrew Horsley, director of the executive search consultancy, Horsley & Company. "But now you have reality colliding with the market. The glamour and the hype concerning MBAs has gone and business is more interested in some assessment of what the prospective executive can really do."