By Yekaterina Dranitsyna
Staff Writer
Young specialists are often welcomed into a company by their more experienced colleagues with the saying: “Forget everything that you were taught at university.” The reason is that graduates often fail to apply even a very sound theoretical knowledge to practical tasks. We ask: Is the young and ambitious MBA graduate any different?
The answer depends on a person’s personality as much as on their age. And the first problem for a young manager is to convince a business school that age is no barrier to getting an MBA degree.