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根据下面资料,回答题 Bill Gates, the billionaire Microsoft chairman without a single earned university degree, is byhis success raising new doubts about the worth of the business world' s favorite academic title : theMBA ( Master of Business Administration).
The MBA, a 20th century product, always has borne the mark of lowly commerce and greedon the tree-lined campuses ruled by purer disciplines such as philosophy and literature.
But even with the recession apparently cutting into the hiring of business school graduates,about 79,000 people were expected to receive MBAs in 1993. This is nearly 16 times the number ofbusiness graduates in 1960, a testimony to the widespread assumption that the MBA is vital foryoung men and women who want to run companies some day.
"If you are going into the, corporate world it is still a disadvantage not to have one, " saidDonald Morrison, professor of marketing and management science. "But in the last five years orso, when someone asks, ' Should I attempt to get an MBA?" The answer a lot more is: ' It depends. ' "
The success of Bill Gates and other non-MBAs, such as the late Sam Walton of Wal-MartStores Inc., has helped inspire self-conscious debates on business school campuses over the worthof a business degree and whether management skills can be taught.
The Harvard Business Review printed a lively, fictional exchange of letters to dramatize complaints about business degree holders. The article called MBA hires "extremely disappointing" andsaid "MBAs want to move up too fast, they don' t understand politics and people, and they aren' table to function as part of a team until their third year. But by then, they' re out looking for otherjobs. "
The problem, most participants in the debate acknowledge, is that the MBA has acquired animage of future riches and power far beyond its actual importance and usefulness.
Enrollment in business schools exploded in the 1970s and 1980s and created the assumptionthat no one who pursued a business career could do without one. The growth was fueled by a driveagainst the anti-business values of the 1960s and by the women' s movement.
Business people who have hired or worked with MBAs say those with the degrees often knowhow to analyze systems but are not so skillful at motivating people. "They don' t get a lot ofgrounding in the people side of the business", said James Shaffer, vice-president and principal ofthe Towers Pen-in Management Consulting Firm.
According to Paragraph 2, what is the general attitude towards business on campuses dominated by purer disciplines? A.Scornful.
B.Appreciative.
C.Envious.
D.Realistic.
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