Schooling should ground one in fundamentals, to some degree.
Maybe target fundamental principles instead of recent opinion if you have the time to learn and want to tranform your thinking for a lifetime?
Both MBA and medical schools are instead practice programs, where case studies exercise knowledge and principles you learned deeply or crammed. If you crammed, you get good at diagnosing and become primary care or first-line specialist. If you learned deeply, you can do M&A or be a researcher or nth-line specialist - likely some combination - or you flame out for lack of political skills or interest in the small niche available. Because they are practical, they produce a large stream of knowledge, for every business or medical case, that outsiders can enjoy and get familiar with. But the knowledge wouldn't qualify them to take on responsibility. That requires a series of validation steps where you handle increasing responsibility. So DIY MD/MBA won't get you in any door.
For business fundamentals, I would recommend reading transaction cost economics to understand the value of e.g., "disruption" or operations research in business. Marketing or product management is just hunting or bearing fruit; they make you a useful tool. TCE answers the real questions: what makes some companies huge or other markets scattered? It's grounding for strategic decision-making.
Maybe target fundamental principles instead of recent opinion if you have the time to learn and want to tranform your thinking for a lifetime?
Both MBA and medical schools are instead practice programs, where case studies exercise knowledge and principles you learned deeply or crammed. If you crammed, you get good at diagnosing and become primary care or first-line specialist. If you learned deeply, you can do M&A or be a researcher or nth-line specialist - likely some combination - or you flame out for lack of political skills or interest in the small niche available. Because they are practical, they produce a large stream of knowledge, for every business or medical case, that outsiders can enjoy and get familiar with. But the knowledge wouldn't qualify them to take on responsibility. That requires a series of validation steps where you handle increasing responsibility. So DIY MD/MBA won't get you in any door.
For business fundamentals, I would recommend reading transaction cost economics to understand the value of e.g., "disruption" or operations research in business. Marketing or product management is just hunting or bearing fruit; they make you a useful tool. TCE answers the real questions: what makes some companies huge or other markets scattered? It's grounding for strategic decision-making.