Posted on 10/10/2021 1:41:27 PM PDT by RandFan
A friend sent me this video. He also happens to be a medium sized employer and after watching this he said he would NEVER hire a Harvard MBA.
I was wondering if any Freepers would have the same attitude?
Take a Seat in the Harvard MBA Case Classroom
Well said and ACCURATE!
Someone in the board room made the mistake of asking me what I thought about the work of a consulting firm currently in house. I said it was a shame that we had to pay so much money so the boss could have someone listen to what his people have been trying to tell him. That was not enough for me though, oh no. I added it was a crying shame we had to pay someone so much money to do what we were already paying a general manager to do. Then I smiled to prove I was a team player.
It is not for nothing that I have always worked hard on my technical skills trying to be better at what I do well every day.
I’m retired now and the world is a better place for it.
Now, though, I can call the shots and decide which work I decide to take and how much of it. So I have much more freedom, more income, and total control. I could never go back to working for the empty-headed wokesters. One observation: Just as with our worthless political “representatives”, the denizens of the C-suite love to talk big about “accountability”, but strangely when their poor decisions inevitably lead to catastrophe the finger of accountability never seems to point back at them. Strange….
Protip: When everyone in the chain of command above you suddenly won’t look you in the eye when talking to you, update your resume!
That is the gospel truth! The eyes are the windows to the soul and when they look away they are hiding something.
Been there, done that, got the T-shirt.
The company one of my son’s worked for went belly up and the bank fired the founding CEO. The guy ran it into the ground with ineptitude and nepotism.
This former CEO starts a consulting biz, gets a contract with a manufacturer who pays him a nice sum to review their processes and find if there are any regulatory compliance issues. He makes his report and cites three issues that need to be brought into compliance.
A couple of months later the place is audited by the FDA who, by the time they were finished, found 131 instances of non-compliance.
Yes but he also got a Harvard MBA
Good for you! I often invited people similar to you to join our firm. I told them this:
There is no big tit for you to suck on anymore.
Nobody loves you and never did.
You have to take care of yourself.
Always behave in public as a cool professional. I’m the hired asshole when it is time and that time is seldom.
Your only value is what you deliver, excellent product.
When stuck on the horns of an ethical dilemma always choose the harder personal right. I will back you if you do.
When you look in the mirror know that you have to go out and kill something to eat today or there will be no meal on the table when you come home.
Good luck, good hunting, call me if I can help you.
Missed it? Heck no, he derailed it!
Yup. At my most recent gig, I told some of my coworkers that I was going to be laid off at 5 o’clock that day, they said nahhh.
Guess what happened at 5 o’clock...
I’m “only” 58, so I’ve still got plenty of time to decide what I want to be when I grow up.
Back during the 2008 financial crises, I used to joke:
Q: What's the difference between an Ivy MBA graduate and an graduate from my mediocre state university MBA program?
A: No one from my MBA program f'ed up Wall Street,
On Wall St. In the 80s, the guys with MBA after their names were known as the ones who made loans to Mexico, Brazil and Argentina
She presented conclusions she wanted the students to support without offering a shred of evidence. The very first thing I’d have done is demand to see evidence to support her claims that the mine was unsafe. Show me accident rates. Show me reports from government safety inspectors/compliance with local mining regulations. Show me any safety audits conducted on that mine. Show me the maintenance records for the equipment, etc etc etc.
I’d also bring up the fact that those miner’s livelihoods depend on the mine being open. So shutting it down without the evidence to support that might cause immense harm to all the people who depended on that mine for a living.
Then again, I got my MBA over 20 years ago and have seen how things work....so I’m not about to be buffaloed by some prof with her self righteousness and no evidence.....
Nailed it.
Are the profit margins higher?
Perfect!
watching the video for only 4 minutes (couldn’t take much more idiocy) i was amazed no one brought up any actual information about the company and region.
they have the internet. the company is real. the region is real.
how many people in the company in the region? locally?
how many people work that mine?
was it a new section of an existing shaft?
closing a shaft is better than the whole mine.
what’s the impact of full or partial closure?
how much does it bring into the local community?
is the mine’s production crucial to down stream manufacturing efforts?
was the death a one off? homicide?
how many deaths over the last year? 5 years? 10 years?
no pattern?
was it due to a policy or condition shift?
basic questions if you’ve ever run a company and had to dive into such a problem.
how does a Harvard MBA program not have such things drummed into the skulls full of mush by now? these types of questions should just be rolled off the tongue when presented with any situation.
i guess they’re to busy being woke to teach problem solving skills.
Mediocre But Arrogant degree.
Undergraduate, yes. But you had to pass an entrance exam to get in a graduate program like an MBA.
For later.
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That bored him as well and my grandfather suggested that he take the entrance exam for Cornell, where he had graduated. Unk decided to go to Harvard instead and took their entrance exam . . . and the rest is history.
Family reunions were always kind of fun back in the day because people would ask Unk for advice and he'd deadpan "How do you expect me to know, I was a high school dropout?"
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