The truth is because people who got the MBA's at those school's deem Executive MBA's way less prestigious. Think about how hard it is to land at Wharton/HBS/Stanford GSB. How many hours people put into the GMAT, prepping their profiles. Then when applicants who would otherwise get dinged from those programs recieve acceptance through the EMBA it feels like a backdoor that diluted the 'prestige/rigor' attached to the original MBA

Plenty of F500 executives have EMBA's. I am sure that these people are quite bright. Nevertheless, the EMBA rightfully rubs alot of MBA's the wrong-way because it feels like someone backdoored into a program that you had to work incredibly hard to get into. 

 
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I could be way off base here but aren't most of the people in EMBA's current executives at companies or successful business owners? The EMBA students I've met all were operating successful medium sized  businesses ($50-250 MN in revenue) or were going to get promoted to C Suite positions after completing the degree.

Both of those are way more impressive than someone from any corporate job (IB/PE/HF/Tech) doing an MBA. Who gives a shit if you scored 780 on a GMAT if you're able to build a successful business that can sustain itself than that's way more impressive. 

 

I feel like the only reason you'd get an EMBA is so you can put MBA on your business cards and LinkedIn profile. You also probably use the vertical line spacer with some hokey catchphrases

TheBrofessor, MBA | Change Agent | Servant Leader | Inspiring Customers and Entrepreneurs | I love what I do! | Borderline Suicidal | Empty Pursuits | I love helping sales teams succeed!

 

Isn't this just a function of the program being catered to successful, experienced professionals (manager level), most of which are at a point where they don't need or care for an MBA, so you get the bottom of that totem pole applying? Don't know much about it but that's my guess. Precisely as theprofessor said about people with vertical linked in linkedin lmao. 

 

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