2023-07-13
32 分钟This is planet money from NPR.
That bell can only mean one thing.
It's time for Planet money summer school.
Whenever the temperature rises and the beach beckons, we show up with a batch of easy lessons to make those lazy afternoons a wee bit more productive.
In summer's past, Planet money summer school has taught us to think like an economist and invest like a boss.
This year, I think we're ready for graduate school.
Oh, yeah.
A masters in business administration, an MBA.
The easy way.
I should trademark that.
I'm your host, Robert Smith.
Now, some might be thinking, Robert, I don't want to spend my precious summer doing hostile takeovers of underperforming businesses.
I want to fire up my barbecue, not fire all my workers.
Why do I need a cut rate MBA?
Once upon a time, I thought the same thing.
I'm a reporter.
I teach journalism at Columbia, and yet I got an MBA.
And I found that what business school does is very similar to our jobs here at Planet money.
You try to understand the nuts and bolts of how a business works, the principles that drive this fierce competition for our attention and our dollars.
And business schools even use a very planet money method.