Tendências e especulação

Há dias, 20.01, o FT trazia um artigo sobre problemas nas universidades inglesas "Finance pressures force staff cutbacks and course closures":

"More than a third of elite UK universities were forced to make further staff cuts last year, while severance spending across the Russell Group rose by more than a fifth, according to Financial Times analysis.

Ten of the 24 universities in the group said they ran voluntary severance schemes in 2024, offering staff compensation packages in exchange for taking voluntary redundancy."

Na revista The Economist da mesma semana podia ler-se "Peak MBA?" O artigo aborda o declínio no valor percebido e no impacte dos MBAs em escolas de negócios de elite nos Estados Unidos, destacando a dificuldade crescente dos graduados em encontrar empregos de alto nível, especialmente nos sectores tradicionais como consultoria e tecnologia:

"At the top 15 business schools, the share of students in 2024 who sought and accepted a job offer within three months of graduating, a standard measure of career outcomes, fell by six percentage points, to 84%. Compared with the average over the past five years, that share declined by eight points.

Some declines are jaw-dropping. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has a decent claim to be the world's top university. But at its business school, named after Alfred Sloan, a giant of the car industry during the 2oth century, the wheels are coming off. During the decade to 2022, on average 82% of its students searching for a job had accepted one at graduation, and 93% had done so three months later. In 2024 those figures were 62% and 77%, respectively. At some elite schools the reality may be even worse than it looks."

Entretanto, no WSJ da semana anterior podia ler-se, "Even Harvard M.B.A.s Struggle to Score Jobs":

"Landing a professional job in the U.S. has become so tough that even Harvard Business School says its M.B.A.s can't solely rely on the university's name to open doors anymore.

Twenty-three percent of job-seeking Harvard M.B.A.s who graduated last spring were still looking for work three months after leaving campus. 

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The share of 2024 M.B.A.s still on the market months after graduation more than doubled at most highly ranked business schools when compared with 2022, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of school data. At some, including the University of Chicago's Booth School and Northwestern University's Kellogg School, the share of students still looking more than tripled."

Hmmm...

• As empresas nos sectores de tecnologia e consultoria (grandes empregadoras de MBAs) estão a cortar as suas contratações?
• A crescente automação e o uso de inteligência artificial estão a eliminar funções tradicionais de gestão e análise, diminuindo a necessidade de profissionais com MBAs?
• A ênfase em skills técnicas está a superar a valorização de diplomas puramente de gestão?
• Será que as escolas de negócios estão a ficar para trás face às transformações do mercado, tendo em conta que o seu ensino, focado em modelos tradicionais de negócio, poderá não estar a acompanhar a crescente complexidade das economias digitais e globais?
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