However, if you look at the longer-term stats at say, Harvard’s MBA program, the percentage of people 10 years or more out of that program who have founded or co-founded businesses is pretty staggering (i forget specifics but remeber that it’s north of 40 or 50%).

As far as the MBA programs ‘teaching’ entrepreneurship….what a bunch of bologna. You can teach how to set up a business, how to account for it, how to market, etc…. but you can’t be taught the drive and desire of succeeding (or teach how to come up with a good idea).

Mr. Schultz, you may be one of the few that goes to get an MBA to become an entrepreneur. Most entres wouldn’t spend the time waiting for school to get out. In the time that it takes to fill out the application, they have already thought of 10 ideas for companies.

However, there are MBA programs that have a focus on entrepreneurship, such as the USC Marshall School of Business where I went.

I went to get my MBA to become an entrepreneur. Having worked in the corporate world for the first six years of my career, I needed a breaking point in order to start a company, and shift industries. Going back to school full-time granted me this opportunity, and I started my first company during the first semester of my MBA program.

I think that an entrepreneur is an entrepreneur whether or not they have an MBA degree.

Being an entrepreneur is at the core of most people who start businesses. Those with an MBA are just a subset of the greater pool of entrepreneurs. But making a generalization that most MBAs “can’t normally become entrepreneurs” is a sweeping statement that misses the mark in my mind.

Sure, most MBAs don’t become entrepreneurs. But most people don’t either. Only a special few.