WRITTEN BY : JOHN O ’ HANLON

THE MASTERS IN Business Administration is recognised internationally as the leading postgraduate business degree . Ideally it should be much more than simply an academic business degree . It is a career development generalist programme , taking into account all major functions and practices of business , for those who have significant post-graduation work experience on which the learning

process explicitly builds .

Specialist management education developed in the United States in the late 1800s as a response to the country ’ s rapid industrialisation , so the USA had a head start on the rest of the world when it came to establishing MBA programs . Though we tend to think of MBAs as a post-war phenomenon . The first course with that name was established at Harvard as long ago as 1908 . In Europe , the

16 June 2015