Back when I was planning my life (OK. I’m still planning my life- it’s just more done than years past), I wondered when I was done getting my PhD in Chemical Engineering, what other degrees I should seek One of the possibilities was getting an MBA (Masters of Business Administration), if I planned to work in industry and not be a professor for the rest of my life. (Since I planned to invent two new products a year, it wasn’t clear that a professorship would mesh well with such a lifestyle.)