Wine
An MBA in Wine Is a Shortcut Into the Booze Business
Your dreams of running a winery could just be a master’s program away.
A year after Aimee Chang’s father invested in a 40-acre vineyard in Napa’s prestigious Pritchard Hill area in 2010, her family decided they wanted to go beyond selling grapes to making and selling their own wine. “But we had zero experience in the wine industry,” admits Chang, 38, a licensed architect who had worked in New York.
She needed to get up to speed—fast.