WGU MBA-HM first impressions and ongoing comments

[dmjacobsen]

Congratulations on finishing your MBA

It's a shame that you ended up having so many problems with that task, I had one of those for mine also but my mentor said that there was no requirement that it be an actual company in existence or one that I worked at. So I had a relative create an imaginary company (so it was technically their idea and thus they were the owner), we created its imaginary financial problems and all its numbers, and then I just interviewed her about changes she wanted to make, and worked from there.

The task that caused the most logistical problems for me in my MBA (IT concentration) at WGU was that my capstone also involved a group business simulation... and the group I was with was full of problem people. I ended up having to get an extension of time and permission to leave the group (and do all the group parts on my own) because the other group was unable to get it together and understand what they needed to do to score well on the simulation.

Like you said though, it's a check the box prerequisite degree for anything managerial, and the WGU experience makes it mostly painless.

Unfortunately, I had already completed about 80% of the project before I realized it was truly going to be a problem. I figured that it would go up the corporate ladder and, at SOME point, someone in the chain would realize... hey, ya know, it's a little excessive to take this through the IRB. But, nope. Bureaucracy is part of my organization's lifeblood.

As for the capim team, I had some problems as well. I was so worried that my team wouldn't pass, because we had a couple of people who just weren't getting it. But, after the practice rounds were over and we failed miserably, somehow we pulled it together and came out in the 96th percentile.