精明能干 can probably be explained as street-smart, plus good personal skills?

I feel the same way about MBA, it should give you more job opportunity in business world than pure IT world. One classmate of mine, got his bechelor's in CS at Columbia University, then worked for Goldman Sachs for 5 years as developer, he was so frustrated after being a developer with no upper movement for 5 years that he went to MBA at Ann Arbor. After MBA, he went to do corporate finance at Intel.

I havent talked to him lately to see whether he is happy there, but I think if you still look for a project mgr position or acct mgr position after mba, your 2 years at b-school is a little wasted. And most program managers at companies like microsoft does not have mba, they were developers and testers who moved into that position.