Beware, teacher provoking thoughts - While it is clear to me that earning an MBA is powerful accomplishment for any student, it is indeed important to consider the images that others may hold regarding the MBA.

That realization raised a business question in my mind - do MBA programs represent a philosophical brand for a school of thought? In business, satisfying any client or customer is a matter of meeting or exceeding their expectations. Do educators manage expectations well? Is it really clear what the MBA is about? Is education like the business world of promises and agreements, where whoever created the ambiguity carries the burden of its loss?

Then like a waterfall of ideas, a flood of related questions filled my mind. 
What do I represent?
What does is a school "brand" behind an assortment of MBA programs?
As a school of business though, what do we really believe? 
Stand for?  Principles?
Fight for? Character?
When a student writes their resume do they put MBA or Harvard, Stanford, etc. MBA?
In other words, what theory of business does the my school's MBA represent?
Do we subscribe to a theory of competence or completion?
Do we subscribe to a theory of economic value creation or a theory of economic value extraction?
Do we subscribe to a theory of employees as stakeholders providing a service or employees as natural resources?
Do we subscribe to a theory of management as responsible decision making agents or elite privileged sovereigns?
Do we subscribe to the theory of business as a social partner or as a social exploiter?
Are we a culture united by a philosophy with a set of principles and practices or are we academically divided by institutional silo’s?

Finally, by trying to answer these questions, what have we learned?