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Rana Foroohar: “Want to Kill Your Economy? Have MBA Programs Churn Out Takers Not Makers.”

March 2, 2018

Makers or takers. The case against MBAs.
 
"If you wonder ... why 80 percent of CEOs surveyed in one study said they’d pass up making an investment that would fuel a decade’s worth of innovation if it meant they’d miss a quarter of earnings results— it’s because that’s exactly what they are being educated to do."
 
I find that statistic appalling. How could a board allow such nonsense? I sit on public boards, and that never infects our thinking.

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