The summer after my first year studying for an MBA at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business was a much-awaited opportunity to leave the protected environment of business school and re-enter the real world, armed with a set of new skills; only to realise that the world seems to have de-emphasised the MBA.

The worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, and the prominent role MBAs are perceived to have played in precipitating and exacerbating it, perhaps explain the increasing intolerance for the “greed is good” mentality that the world associates with us.