最近,，斯坦福商學院的三角戀丑聞鬧得沸沸揚揚。如果說這能夠反映點什么的話,，那就是一個知名商學院的MBA學位或許根本不像他們宣揚的那么有價值,。對于一些有抱負的企業(yè)家和商業(yè)領袖則更是如此！

斯坦福的這起三角戀故事,，依然是我們非常熟悉的套路：一男一女兩名教授結了婚,，并且生了兩個孩子，后來婚姻出現(xiàn)了裂痕,，女教授搬了出去,，男教授申請了離婚，兩個人都開始跟其他人約會,。只是他們并非是一對普通的夫妻,，他們的故事很快演變成了一樁驚天丑聞。

故事的男主角詹姆斯?菲爾斯和女主角黛博拉?格林菲德爾都是斯坦福商學院的教授,。在分居后不久,，格林菲爾德和她的領導——也是她丈夫的領導加爾斯?塞隆納有了一腿。

這段本來可以和平分手的婚姻,，在離婚時演變得極為難看?，F(xiàn)在兩人還在為子女的撫養(yǎng)權打官司，官司已經(jīng)打了整整三年,，光是律師費就花了50萬美元,。

與此同時，菲爾斯仍然能夠看到他妻子的電子郵件,、短信和聊天記錄,，結果在追蹤這兩人的偷情信息的過程中，他發(fā)現(xiàn)他妻子正和他的領導合謀對付他——至少他是這樣宣稱的,。

和格林菲爾德偷情的那位院長大人最終向斯坦福的教務長約翰?艾切曼蒂報告了此事,，而且在校方?jīng)Q定處理菲爾斯的時候進行了回避,，然而，菲爾斯最后還是被斯坦福商學院解聘了,，理由大概是因為他在蘋果大學代課太多,，導致在本校經(jīng)常曠工。

走投無路之下,，菲爾斯向法院提起訴訟,，狀告他的領導和學校不應開除他。于是各種各樣的猛料都被公開爆了出來,，據(jù)《名利場》雜志報道,，有46名斯坦福商學院的現(xiàn)職員工和前員工宣稱，賽隆納是個靠“個人至上,、任人唯親和制造恐懼”來進行領導的惡人,。

等到這些丑聞通過商學院網(wǎng)站Poets&Quants曝光出來之后，賽隆納終于辭職了,。

然而,，事情到這并沒有結束。菲爾斯現(xiàn)在仍然在蘋果大學教書,。斯坦福商學院提起了反訴,，稱賽隆納的課程材料的所有權屬于斯坦福商學院，因此,，把蘋果公司也拉進了這個泥潭,。與此同時，格林菲爾德拿到了她的課程《權利運作》（Acting With Power）的50萬美元出書預付款,，而斯坦福對此似乎連一點意見都沒有,。

你就是編，也編不出這么狗血的故事,。

我們總是認為,，表里不一,、任人唯親,、睚眥必報、欺軟怕硬,、玩弄權術,、個人至上是官僚和政客才會干的事。但無論如何,，我們絕不應該把這些東西教給未來的企業(yè)家,、高管和商業(yè)領袖。

這種不正常的行為在商業(yè)世界里也的確存在,，但從我的經(jīng)驗來看,，它只是偶發(fā)現(xiàn)象，不是通行慣例。如果這種丑惡現(xiàn)象真的在那些運行良好的企業(yè)里抬頭,，通常也會在一個注重精英管理而不是官僚主義糟粕的文化中被清理出去,。

可能你還是覺得，有抱負的職場人士有必要到商學院去學習一下商業(yè),、管理,、領導力和企業(yè)家精神，但實際上,，人們完全可以在真實世界的經(jīng)驗中學到這些東西,，也可以向那些已經(jīng)實現(xiàn)了事業(yè)目標的導師們學習，而且效果可能都要好得多,，而不是讓一群連自己都有問題的學術研究人員給你講課,。

我們這個時代的很多優(yōu)秀企業(yè)家連大學都沒有上完，更不用說商學學位了,，比如理查德?布蘭森,、拉里?埃利森、史蒂夫?喬布斯,、比爾?蓋茨和馬克?扎克伯格等人,。這里只舉其中的一小部分例子。

雖然杰夫?貝索斯（亞馬遜）,、沃倫?巴菲特,、安迪?格羅夫（英特爾）、赫布?凱萊赫（西南航空）,、馬云（阿里巴巴）,、伊隆?馬斯克（特斯拉和SpaceX）、拉里?佩奇（谷歌）,、弗萊德?史密斯（聯(lián)邦快遞）和孫正義（軟銀）等人都有大學學位,，但他們中間沒有一個人讀過MBA。有意思的是,，現(xiàn)代管理學之父彼得?德魯克也沒上過商學院,。

就我個人來說，當年我還是一個年輕的工程師的時候,，也曾聽過一兩堂MBA課,，然后我說“去他的吧”，就再沒去上過?，F(xiàn)在看起來,，這是一個頗為明智的決定。當然,，如果你非常想拿到那一紙文憑,，我相信它會讓你在領英（LinkedIn）上看起來很高端,，但我很懷疑它能給你帶來多少真正的好處，說不定它還會教給你一些非常惡俗的毛病,。

在放棄了讀商學院的念頭后,，我讀了馬克?麥考馬克的暢銷書《在哈佛他們不會教給你什么》。這本書對我的職業(yè)生涯產(chǎn)生了極大的影響,，幫我成為了一名高科技行業(yè)的一流高管,。或許有人應該寫一本名叫《他們在斯坦福商學院會教給你什么,，但是千萬別學》的書,。（財富中文網(wǎng)）

譯者：樸成奎

If the spiraling scandal over a lascivious love triangle at Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) is any indication, an MBA from a prestigious B-School isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. And I think that’s especially true for aspiring entrepreneurs and business leaders.

The tale starts out sounding familiar enough: Two professionals get together and have two kids, their marriage hits the rocks, she moves out, he files for divorce, both start seeing other people, yada yada. But this is no ordinary couple. And their story soon turns into a massive train wreck.

James Phills and Deborah Gruenfeld were both professors at GSB. Soon after the separation, Gruenfeld starts a secret affair with her boss, who also happens to be her husband’s boss, dean Garth Saloner.

The couple’s split turns into an ugly divorce and custody battle that’s still going on, three years and half a million dollars in legal fees later.

Meanwhile Phills, who still has access to his wife’s emails, texts, and messages, tracks her not-so-clandestine communications with her lover / his boss in which the pair plot against him, or so he alleges.

And while the dean eventually discloses the affair to Stanford provost John Etchemendy and sort of recuses himself from decisions involving his girlfriend’s husband, Phills still ends up getting fired, supposedly for taking too many leaves of absence to teach at Apple University.

At that point, Phills sues his former boss and the school for wrongful termination. All sorts of dirty laundry ends up getting aired, including a 2014 complaint by 46 current and former GSB employees claiming that Saloner was a bully who ruled by “personal agendas, favoritism and fear,” according to Vanity Fair.

And when the whole sordid mess ends up getting exposed on Poets&Quants – a B-School site – Saloner finally steps down.

Wait, there’s more. Phills continues to teach at Apple . Stanford countersues, claiming that it owns his course materials, anddrags Apple into the fray. Meanwhile, Gruenfeld gets a nearly million-dollar advance on a book deal for her course, “Acting With Power,” which Stanford seems to have no problem with.

You just can’t make this stuff up, folks.

While duplicity, cronyism, vindictiveness, bullying, power plays, and personal agendas may be the sort of behavior we’ve come to expect from bureaucrats and politicians, it’s certainly not what we should be teaching tomorrow’s entrepreneurs, executives, and business leaders.

That sort of dysfunctional behavior does exist in the business world, but in my experience, it’s the exception, not the rule. And when it does rear its ugly head at well-run companies, it’s usually weeded out by peer pressure from a positive culture that values meritocracy, not bureaucracy and the organizational ills that go with it.

Besides, if you assume that up-and-comers go to business school to learn about business, management, leadership, and entrepreneurship, I would argue that you’re way better off learning all that through real world experience and from mentors who’ve accomplished what you aspire to, not a bunch of academic researchers with issues.

Among the many great entrepreneurs of our time – Richard Branson, Larry Ellison, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg, to name a few – there’s not a degree among them, let alone a business degree.

And while Jeff Bezos (Amazon), Warren Buffett, Andy Grove (Intel), Herb Kelleher (Southwest Airlines), Jack Ma (Alibaba), Elon Musk (Tesla and SpaceX), Larry Page (Google), and Fred Smith (FedEx), and Masayoshi Son (Softbank) all have degrees, none has an MBA. Interestingly enough, the same is true of the father of modern management, Peter Drucker.

On a personal note, I took a couple of MBA classes as a young engineer, said, “Screw this,” and never looked back. That turned out to be a pretty wise decision. Of course, if you’re hell bent on getting that piece of paper, I’m sure it’ll look great on LinkedIn but I doubt if it’ll do you much good. And it just might teach you some pretty nasty habits.

After forsaking business school, I read Mark McCormack’s bestseller What They Don’t Teach You at Harvard Business School. The book had a tremendous impact on my career, helping me to become a top executive in the high-tech industry. Maybe somebody should pen What They Do Teach You at Stanford Business School … But Shouldn’t.