Do you need MBA or business in the blood for entreprenurship?

[Anand]

This is the question which has been haunting me for quite some time. I have seen many successful entrpreneurs without education and many more  MBA’s without  the business instinct. Look at Saravna Bhavan restaurant chain. The owner never w ent to IIM. But he is very successful. Likewise there are thousands I have seen who never knew    about business education. I am told Bill gates was a Harvrad drop out. Opra Winfrey never did MBA. Bronson never started off with business school education. Take for example who are the guys who are running the big engineering colleges in our country? But I see lots of MBA's running across the streets  selling soaps, dictionaries and picture books. One proud owner of an airline training training academy claimed on the TV that he was employing MBA clerks. In india we can make any respectable degree into a meaningless joke. Why all the fuss   about MBA?

 Is that then a grandiose claim that one must   have an MBA?

[Admin]

Your perception is rather too radical by building an argument with exceptions and freaks. Formally educated MBA with a keen sense of scientific management does not go wrong or fail. I do not wish to comment about  those  numerous  mediocre MBA's going  without jobs. Moreover, Saravana Bhavan is  not the right example as in India you have strange ways to obtain business success.