M-Train?

[GT1992]

No, that's not always the way it works. Some people move from engineering to management but some don't want to be engineers and start there. Maybe unintended but your arogance seems to be showing. Mgt is a good degree and harder than business at most other schools.

I understand that some started out in Management, but the M-Train describes the movement from Engineering to Management.

Like I said, I have an MBA and my father is the dean of a business school. There is no comparison in how difficult they are. Even my father would admit that. However, the disciplines taught in B school are vital to businesses and the degrees are valuable. I'm not trying to put down the school, it's just simply not as difficult of a degree to earn. What you do with it after you graduate is what is important.

I'm actually in marketing now. When I was a young engineer, I worked on several products that were great ideas, but weak marketing made them failures. Trust me, I understand that the greatest engineering feat is worthless if you can't sell it to make money for your company. Or if an employee breaks the company because it didn't have all the EEOC compliance in place. Or if you can't tell what is profitable.

 

[WreckTheRest]

Like I said, I have an MBA and my father is the dean of a business school. There is no comparison in how difficult they are. Even my father would admit that. However, the disciplines taught in B school are vital to businesses and the degrees are valuable. I'm not trying to put down the school, it's just simply not as difficult of a degree to earn. What you do with it after you graduate is what is important.

100% agree. Just because something is easier to learn doesn't make it less vital.

Importance of marketing: Hewlett-Packard released a hard drive in the early nineties called the kittyhawk without marketing research. Their design engineers basically said "let's build this really nifty really cool engineering feat-of-a hard drive. it's so cool and we're so smart, people will buy it."

They misred the market and their super awesome hard drive didn't sell... I call it "when engineers go wild."

 

[WreckTheRest]

Georgia Tech has a new major that merges engineering curriculums with a mgt curriculum for the very reason I mentioned above.

If you go to www.mgt.gatech.edu you can read more about it.

 

[Vespidie]

I hope this isn't a really obvious answer and I also hope that I am being blasphemous for not knowing,

But what is the M-Train?

I see it every now and then and it is in the GTG's Perfect Option song (Which I loooove now).

I hate to waste a post on this, but where else could it go?

Wouldn't 3 pages of replies regarding the original post mentioned above correlate to something like a Theorem of Divergence. I could only imagine what a puppy fan feels like now after reading this thread.

I have to take something for my headache now.