How to verify if someone sketchy actually has an MBA from HBS?
My mom told me my flyover state dumpy cesspool hometown hired this guy as "CFO" (so he's officially a public employee) and I believe he claims to have a Stanford masters in engineering and a Harvard MBA. He's only paid around 140K, seems really in over his head, and appears seriously dim when he speaks (cringe inducing). My hometown is a corrupt hellhole with low IQ crook politicians, so it would be par for the course if he was actually fibbing about his credentials or has those laughable exec weekend certificates. Is there any easy way to find out if he has genuine credentials?
Congrats on having one of the more interesting questions I've seen here. You can call and ask if they have a verification system. That seems like step one.
Does Harvard have various programs outside of the real deal MBA that allows charlatans to market themselves as Harvard Business School alums?
Quick google search says they do: https://www.hbs.edu/mba/registrar/general/Pages/general-verification.as…
I'd be curious what information they request from the individual who is soliciting confirmation (e.g., reason for request).
Regarding @Anonymous_Monkey_1" 's question, they totally do. Whenever I go through the occasional clearing of random LinkedIn requests, I come across these jokers here and there. Both HBS and Stanford B-school have some random programs that clearly aren't traditional MBA programs. It's always the same nonsense. These people will list the prestigious business school as their "primary education" on their profile....then you scroll down to their education section and usually (if they're not being blatantly dishonest) get the full picture there. They did some whatever "program" at one of these schools (where you probably get something akin to a participation ribbon -- whoops, I mean "certificate") and their actual college degree is from a place you need to look up because you've never heard of it. It is use to really irritate me seeing this kind of stuff -- nowadays I get a kick out of it knowing that no one of consequence actually falls for this kind of desperate, misleading behavior.
I know some guy at a semi having HBS as main education in his profile as he did the pre MBA/business school weekend at HBS... Makes your look stupid imo but as I am based in Europe recruiters don't know how crappy these programmes are
There are always going to be good and bad in every school. Sure, there will be a lot less bad from a Harvard MBA program but people slip through the cracks occasionally. I can't speak to identifying if he's legit or not but there are absolutely sketchy Harvard MBA grads out there. Anecdotally, the unabomber went to Harvard for undergrad.
Meet Jeff Skilling, former CEO of Enron. Switched from engineering to business. Yeah, he did go to HBS. Baker Scholar, in fact. A real winner.
In his admissions interview for HBS, he was asked if he was smart, to which he replied, "I'm fucking smart."
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I don't see the issue here. The man obviously had to be extremely brilliant in order for him to scheme his way into making fraudulent Enron one of the biggest companies in the world. He even sold his shares before shit hit the fan.
fun fact. while I was getting my Masters degree at (a top 5 ivy) university, ran into a few "ghost" peers.
i.e., they found someone that looked (almost) identical to them, pay them to attend all classes/lectures, and in return, get a diploma.
all while the real student vacationed/partied around the world.
If MonacoMonkey got a masters from a top 5 ivy, then sketchy people definitely can get through the system.
BusinessInsider says the #5 Ivy is Cornell. Somehow the world makes a lot more sense if you imagine Monaco as a burnt out Andy Bernard.
i'm surprised this isn't more of a thing
Reminds me of Suits
How so? (I've only seen one or two eps.)
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