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Experts largely agree that business school can offer you one thing that can’t be achieved via online tutorials: a large, built-in network. But a network is only what you make of it.

The fact is that nothing can really ever prepare you for starting your own business. An MBA can, however, help lay the groundwork.

In the age of AI, the learning curve for starting a business is less steep. But that’s why there’s even more of a reason to go to business school — they’re teaching students to think strategically and grow the soft skills that successful leadership demands, which AI can’t teach you.

I never went to business school — but I have, on occasion, wondered how my life would be different if I had. Who would I have met? What advice would I have been given? What insights might I have uncovered with a little more guidance?

I have no regrets about the path I chose.…