Emailed NPR:
Business School Horrors
After graduating from MIT and working as a trader on Wall Street, I attended a top-ten ranked business school to obtain a Masters in Finance.
I successfully completed all required classes, most with merits. While matriculating, near the end of the program, I was run over by a Hit-and-Run driver and severely disabled.
See Sunday NYT, Section 10, front page article.
The school agreed to list me as Incomplete, until I recovered and finished my final project requirement – a work in progress. After I recovered, settling the criminal case with a felony conviction and jail sentence, the business school informed me, belatedly, that I had failed the program, because I missed a deadline. It turns out there was no deadline and thus began a 4+ year battle to unsuccessfully obtain my costly (in more ways than one) degree.
This imperial institution, which last week was singled out and faulted for “arrogance” in the Wall Street Journal Annual Business School Rankings, now states I am “damaging their Branding Campaign” and “will not discuss my irrelevant case any further”. Their recent response was to delete me from their school database records, effectively denying my attendance and existence.
The cavalier indifference, I am experiencing, suggests that this school, which is fond of comparing itself to Harvard, lies somewhere between the HP and Enron of business schools. In our hyper-competitive business environment, it would be illustrative for npr listeners, to explore and visit the underside of the business school culture, through this nightmare – which I continue to experience.
