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The Voluntary Brainwashing of Humanities Students in Stanford's MBA Program: Student Complaints and Some Recommendations

Peter Robinson's Snapshots from Hell: The Making of an MBA provides a horror picture of the prestigious Stanford 1988-1990 MBA program from a humanities student's perspective. Although Stanford offers a two-year program, the book is limited to the author's first year's traumatic trimester experience with 333 incoming students from 21 countries — the year where most students either sink or swim. Robinson, a former White House speech writer for both Vice President George Bush and President Ronald Reagan, offers the book as a helpful "how-to-do-it" guide for current and future MBAs. He wants MBAs nationwide to know that the hell their professors put them through is not unique to any one MBA program. Indeed, the more prestigious the school, the greater the hell. The author also concludes that MBAs, particularly Stanford MBAs, deserve the high pay and respect they are granted in the world of business for surviving boot-camp. This book offers a fascinating opportunity for discussing the ethics of any MBA program. Naturally, Stanford represents only one data point, and knowledge of that data point is based on only one key informant, the author. Nonetheless, despite these research methodology weaknesses, the book offers four research virtues. First, Stanford is consistently ranked among one of the best business schools in the country, thus it is a program that other business schools aspire to replicate. According to the 1995 Stanford MBA Program, the school is "proud of our position as the top academic school of management" (emphasis