I don't see why everyone thinks you have to have an MBA to be a good businessperson. MBA's are a joke, IMO- degrees for frat boys who already have ready made jobs at dad or best-friend's uncle's company, and sometimes a blue-collar guy trying to get a leg up. The best businesspeople I know [those who have run successful start ups] came from other fields… Restaurant people, an under-thirty mechanical engineer who instead made a business incubator connecting people in our small city with silicon valley big wigs; even the theater and art kids I went to school with have had commercial success, one via a 3D printing lab [he took one class and saw the opportunity], the other running his own children's theater. Some have had no degrees at all. [Not to mention, Bill Gates… another 'geek' who also had business sense lol] Success in business is more dependent on mindset and timing than education, IMO. The ability to see, recognize, and seize opportunity is not something you can teach, nor is the real-life networking and elbow rubbing that goes along with making your company a success. All an MBA degree really does (IF it's from a good school) is connect you with appropriate people and do some of that elbow rubbing for you by association. I'm convinced everything else can be self taught with books and talking to as many people who have achieved what you hope to become as possible. Do you honestly think these guys who have been mastering calculus, programming, partial differential equations and whathaveyou are incapable of learning basic accounting? Their time at Los Alamos was WAY more important to real-life success, as it allowed them to make all these contacts (which they have bragged about 'leveraging' repeatedly) such as with DoD, Honeywell, Boeing, GE, etc as we've been seeing these past years. Leveraging a network like that is pretty darn 'business savvy' if you ask me.
