Not Enough Math

Edward Morley claims it’s time to end ‘Physics for Poets’ classes in university curriculums. He laments the lower math and science standards we have for college students. I have to agree with him.

The class most feared by fellow students in my MBA program is quantitative analysis. Instructors in our economics and accounting classes go to great pains to lesson the pain of any math that might be inflicted on the students. The take-home message? You don’t need math to manage. Math skills are too demanding, too difficult, to be expected of graduate students.