Learning on the job is a valid point, but it's often not interdisciplinary. You learn and develop your skills in the areas you work in. Opportunities to expand your skillset and study other topics are difficult to come by in many work environments. Especially if you're in a position that didn't require a degree in the first place.
I agree you don't have to go to a University to learn, but you do have to find willing and qualified teachers and mentors which can be harder than it might seem.
And read the fine print regarding 10.1 RC: "The Flash Player 10.1 Release Candidate available at ... does not APPEAR to be vulnerable." Very different than "Here's a fix."
Someone needs to zoom out on this type of study and look into whether degrees at any school, not business alone, contribute to corporate or even career success.
The degree doesn't possess its own inate potential for success. The student has the potential to contribute - either they do or they don't. The school is teaching competency in specific topics and skills. It's up to the student to apply those skills and contribute to their company's success.
An MBA isn't just a study in one thing, it's a multi-disciplinary degree. You take classes in accounting, economics, entrepreneurship, finance, international business, operations management, organizational behavior, marketing, strategy, etc.
You can learn a lot on the job, but how many jobs let you do accounting and marketing? If you're working for a domestic company do you get any experience in international business? If you work in HR are you doing anything involving economics.
It's easy to say you can learn anything on the job, but that's hardly the case when your job has specific responsibilities. A student who truly STUDIES and EARNS their MBA has the ability to apply a broad set of knowledge to any job. What's the basis for questioning someone's ability as an effective manager because of their degree type? Not all MBAs are managers, that's something different entirely.
Then in your "real world evidence" you're questioning the efficacy of MBA graduates based on how foreign companies train from within? Huh?
By itself, any degree means nothing - it's up to the employee to apply the knowledge they gained while earning that degree to bring value to their company.
Questioning if there's value in an MBA in any company is questioning the value of knowledge. If there's no value in knowledge, then why bother having any sort of degree - just hire kids of a working age and teach them to put the widget together. They'll learn the rest on the job right? Hardly.
His statements indicate they are ignoring the fact that the social norms of bloggers and the social norms of friends connecting on a website and sharing information are not the same. Assuming that Facebook's users think they are publishing in public, versus publishing to a specific list of friends that they control is ludicrous.
The fact that this is being ignored is very disturbing. This move is clearly being driven by business decisions without the consideration of its users and their privacy.
This experience has nothing to do with the designer's design skills or work-style at all. This is an experience based on someone who didn't treat you well as a customer.
Find someone with good recommendations, contact the businesses they include in their portfolio and ask how the project went. Find someone who's clients would actually recommend and you're more likely to have a good experience because you've established that the designer has a track record for delivering a good product and providing a good customer experience.
I agree you don't have to go to a University to learn, but you do have to find willing and qualified teachers and mentors which can be harder than it might seem.