Sometimes, in the corporate world, having an MBA can open a lot of doors and move a lot of careers forward.

However, getting your graduate business degree can be a very expensive endeavor.

Businesswoman Laurie Pickard enjoins readers of Don’t Pay for Your MBA to skip this costly step and instead shares practical advice on how to take advantage of online education to obtain the knowledge they need to get ahead.

Don't Pay for your MBA is a great guide, if you are unsure of where to start your business knowledge gaining path. I believe that if you follow the path shown by Laurie Pickard you will get clearer about why you want an MBA as well as hone yourself with up to date skills using MOOCs. Like Pickard stresses, it is important to learn the basic and language of business and slowly build up the pyramid with finally employing your skills in real-life situations. As she iterates, the best gift of your self-made MBA is your career in your hands..

This is exactly the book about MOOCs that I’ve been waiting for. It has full of insights and practical ways on how you can get an equivalent MBA level of business knowledge without paying as much as the traditional class.

I started taking MOOCs since 2013 and I would say that there were a lot of things the changed. Before I can just take the course from Coursera and once done you will get a certificate. There were verified certificate before and I paid for like two courses I really enjoyed.

This book provides the structure one needs to make the most of MOOCs. I for one cannot make sense of the number of courses so tempting to take and I ended up not finishing a lot of it.

This book will provide me direction moving forward.