There is something fundamentally wrong with academic education. I don’t know what it is, but I know it’s there. Some thing doesn’t feel right with all of these classes and home works and exams. Maybe I should change that to “There is some thing really really wrong with business schools.”. Yeah, that makes more sense and it makes painful amounts of sense in a flawed and troubled society like Iran. Let me explain.
The business is changing everyday. Professors on the other hand do not! and that’s why in developed economies business school courses are (hopefully) taught by business man or management consultants who may or may not hold a PhD. It was like this in the 1950s when business schools were first established and academic persons tried ,although fruitlessly, to raise business men.
In Iran the situation is even more caricaturized. In our school for example (University of Tehran School of Entrepreneurship) Professors are half business men and half academic. The first group suffers the problem their American counterparts had fifty years ago. the business men (Consultant type) professors have another problem peculiar to Iran. The Iranian business environment does not corroborate with what they have to teach. The maturity of organizations are at extremely low levels here and they have to teach contemporary business text books ( even the old ones don’t teach much on birbary which is a very common thing if you want to engage in a business relationship with the government. So, In short, What you learn is of really no busines value inside Iran. That’s not the whole story. What you learn does not come handy anywhere else in the world (the developed world) since you where not familiarized with the world business environment.
That was why a business degree issued from an Iranian university is actually useless. of course this was only my Idea and might be very very wrong. what do you think? I think this was a really boring post… very very boring.