How are MBA programs so behind? I mean, talented/successful entrepreneurs flock to the teaching positions at top MBA programs. Why do they remain to set in their ways?

A question for you all you disgruntled MBA's -- how do you make MBA programs more agile/nimble?

Let us inspect the definition of an MBA - nope. nothing there.

How about the sales pitch B-Schools make - nope they don't. $$ is the only promise.

Basically what we see here is that institutions are issuing certificates saying that they are capable of producing an individual who fits into any leadership role in any org without any domain specific knowledge and can keep everything going smoothly.

After that analysis, the usual response I get from people is that MBAs are great at networking and blah blah. So navigating the communication hierarchy of an org takes 2 years of training ? And this is enough to produce "Da Boss" for an org ?

When you sign up for a 4 yr CS degree - you are guaranteed some exposure to a mixture of CS concepts, same for EE. A masters degree / PhD are also reasonably defined. Can anyone produce a similar intuitive definition for an MBA ?

Steve Blank's customer development process may be the only example of anything agile taught at business schools.

Love it for talks. It'd be cool to see this info aggregated for a Dave Mclure presentation.