More Than Money: Questions Every MBA Needs to Answer

The New York Times-bestselling author "offers some practical tools for finding a more holistic return on an MBA investment" (David Wood, Fisher Graduate School, Monterey Institute, MBA, 1993).As an MBA graduate, you can't risk wasting that expensive education, so it's time to reach for as much money and status as you can. It's the safe thing to do. Isn't it?Not necessarily. Mark Albion doesn't pretend to have all the answers, but his unique perspective can help you find yours. There are other ways to look at potential risks and rewards, even when you have thousands of dollars of student loans to pay back. Money is important but it's not the key to fulfillment. The "safe" choice, the most monetarily rewarding one, can carry enormous psychological and spiritual pain. As Ralph Waldo Emerson put it, "Sometimes money costs too much."In More Than Money, Albion redefines the typical way the risk/reward equation is written, using his own life story and those of the many entrepreneurs, executives and MBAs he's met as both cautionary and inspirational tales. He introduces a framework of four crucial questions to consider when thinking about your career choices, as well as "lifelines," principles that can help you answer these questions and guide you to construct your personal, strategic destiny plan.A consciousness-raising book as well as a career guide, More Than Money encourages MBA students to give themselves permission to be who they really want to be and find their path of service. For, as Albion says, in the end "we won't remember you for the size of your wallet as much as the size of your heart."

“"More than a master of business administration, Mark Albion offers his read- ers an advanced degree in the meaning of life. His MBA is a Master of Blessed Attitude, and it suggests a course of personal development that will give every- one more than money--it will give them purpose, direction, and hope." --Alan M. Webber, former editorial director and managing editor, Harvard Business Review "Dr. Albion has developed the tools for helping us find our way in our professional lives. While this book is written for MBAs, it will speak to anyone who has struggled to find more meaning in his or her career. A compelling writer, Dr. Albion is open about himself, admits his mistakes, and through his own telling of how he learned from them, teaches us how to recognize ours and change the course of our lives for the better." --Phoebe Higgins, Dominican University of California, MBA, 2007 "The basic messages of the book summon up, and resonate with, my own experiences as an MBA student, and I realize that I would have been one of the people this book was intended for. I'm reminded of some of the lessons I've learned the hard way since leaving my MBA program. Not only does More Than Money invite us to question how success is really best measured, but it also offers some practical tools for finding a more holistic return on an MBA investment." --David Wood, Fisher Graduate School, Monterey Institute, MBA, 1993 "Before getting an MBA, read More Than Money. This book revolutionizes business school education and will help any MBA student get more out of school. In his special way, Dr. Mark leads you to define first what you want to do with your life. He does so by guiding you not with answers but with crucial questions that help you connect with who you are and what you wanted as a child but deemed impossible. Now it is possible." --Anton Arapetyan, Lviv (Ukraine) University MBA, 2006, Lviv Business School "More Than Money reaffirms that as human beings we first need to love and be loved--before we are MBAs. Our MBA degrees, our positions, money, and assets are tools that can help us to love. For when all is said and done, on our deathbeds, love is the only thing that will have mattered. Thank you, Dr. Mark, for being that voice that speaks to our spirits, not just our heads." --Tolulope Ilesanmi, McGill University, MBA, 2005 "This book has me thinking in a very serious way about my life, my place in the world, and how my strengths and talents can be of service. It has me remember- ing the best times at work and how good it felt to be working together toward common objectives with a common purpose and with passion. I'd like to find that again. More Than Money is really going to help me focus on doing so." --Douglas Hammer, New York University, Stern School of Business, MBA, 1999 "We have all heard stories of business school graduates who took decades to realize the careers they chose right out of school were the wrong ones for them. Benefit from the teachings in this book and start building yourself a sustainable career now, so you don't have to undo your mistakes later." --Erika Haas, Stanford Graduate School of Business, MBA, 1998”

“More than a master of business administration, Mark Albion offers his read- ers an advanced degree in the meaning of life. His MBA is a Master of Blessed Attitude, and it suggests a course of personal development that will give every- one more than money—it will give them purpose, direction, and hope.”
—Alan M. Webber, former editorial director and managing editor, Harvard Business Review

“Dr. Albion has developed the tools for helping us find our way in our professional lives. While this book is written for MBAs, it will speak to anyone who has struggled to find more meaning in his or her career. A compelling writer, Dr. Albion is open about himself, admits his mistakes, and through his own telling of how he learned from them, teaches us how to recognize ours and change the course of our lives for the better.”
—Phoebe Higgins, Dominican University of California, MBA, 2007

“The basic messages of the book summon up, and resonate with, my own experiences as an MBA student, and I realize that I would have been one of the people this book was intended for. I’m reminded of some of the lessons I’ve learned the hard way since leaving my MBA program. Not only does More Than Money invite us to question how success is really best measured, but it also offers some practical tools for finding a more holistic return on an MBA investment.”
—David Wood, Fisher Graduate School, Monterey Institute, MBA, 1993

“Before getting an MBA, read More Than Money. This book revolutionizes business school education and will help any MBA student get more out of school. In his special way, Dr. Mark leads you to define first what you want to do with your life. He does so by guiding you not with answers but with crucial questions that help you connect with who you are and what you wanted as a child but deemed impossible. Now it is possible.”
—Anton Arapetyan, Lviv (Ukraine) University MBA, 2006, Lviv Business School

“More Than Money reaffirms that as human beings we first need to love and be loved—before we are MBAs. Our MBA degrees, our positions, money, and assets are tools that can help us to love. For when all is said and done, on our deathbeds, love is the only thing that will have mattered. Thank you, Dr. Mark, for being that voice that speaks to our spirits, not just our heads.”
—Tolulope Ilesanmi, McGill University, MBA, 2005

“This book has me thinking in a very serious way about my life, my place in the world, and how my strengths and talents can be of service. It has me remember- ing the best times at work and how good it felt to be working together toward common objectives with a common purpose and with passion. I’d like to find that again. More Than Money is really going to help me focus on doing so.”
—Douglas Hammer, New York University, Stern School of Business, MBA, 1999

“We have all heard stories of business school graduates who took decades to realize the careers they chose right out of school were the wrong ones for them. Benefit from the teachings in this book and start building yourself a sustainable career now, so you don’t have to undo your mistakes later.”
—Erika Haas, Stanford Graduate School of Business, MBA, 1998

Mark Albion is a social entrepreneur and author. He spent eighteen years as a student and professor at Harvard University and Harvard Business School and was profiled on 60 Minutes as one of the top young business professors in the United States. He has served as a board member and consultant to major retailers and consumer product giants such as Coca-Cola and Procter & Gamble and has written three award- winning marketing books. He left Harvard to develop a community of service-minded MBAs and cofounded Net Impact in 1993. He has since spoken at more than 125 business schools on five continents, for which Business Week called him "the savior of b-school souls."

MBA students are chronically risk-averse. Their risk aversion prevents them from seeking and living a life of meaning and purpose. Yet we all want to lead a meaningful life, one that comes from being part of something bigger a bigger story than one life, one person, one family. This book redefines risk as a business proposition. It shows students that the choices they think of as "safe" (e.g. lucrative jobs that fulfill no personal aspirations aside from financial gain, deferring service to others until retirement, etc.) are actually quite risky, since they typically lead us to sell our souls. A consciousness raising book rather than a how-to Albion's project helps MBA students give themselves "permission" to be who they really want to be. It helps readers develop the will to create a meaningful life. The first step in this process is for readers to identify their own values. How can you create value, Albion asks, until you know your values? Abion encourages readers to re-think and reassess, but he doesn't point them in a specific direction. He walks them through the process of asking and answering four core questions: 1) Who Are You? 2) What Do You Want? 3) What Can You Do? 4) Where Are You Going? The goal is to help readers identify and formulate what a meaningful life looks like for them.

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