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Never hire a Harvard MBA!
YouTube ^ | Oct 10 | RandFan

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


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To: mad_as_he$$

Great quote!


21 posted on 10/10/2021 2:05:06 PM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan

Harvard, MIT, Yale, and especially Columbia.

Especially, if they graduated after 2008.

In general, I have spent my entire working career cleaning up after these MBA’s came in and destroyed businesses with their ideas.


22 posted on 10/10/2021 2:05:15 PM PDT by Ouderkirk (Life is about ass, you're either covering, hauling, laughing, kicking, kissing, or behaving like one)
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To: 9YearLurker
>> Without actually watching the video, what was your friend’s problem with it? <<

Just watched the first couple of minutes but looks like your basic wise, woke African-American female trying to unite the workers of the world to fight the evils of capitalism while at the same time battling institution racism, misogyny and xenophobia at one of the world's most prestigious institutions that was build on the backs of slave labor.
Am I close?
23 posted on 10/10/2021 2:06:00 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: srmanuel
You see it all the time in Technology Companies, look at what happened at Apple when Steve Jobs got replaced by a guy who sold soft drinks and didn’t know anything about technology....

Look at Boeing, they were run by Engineers and built a great plane, replace them with Bean Counters and you get the disastrous 737max...

"Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand." ~ Putt's Law

24 posted on 10/10/2021 2:06:21 PM PDT by null and void (As usual, the GOP was either totally unprepared for the onslaught or complicit in the tyranny)
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To: x
I worked with a guy who had gone through the Kennedy School at Harvard. He was a nice guy, and we got along really well, but he was constantly asking me for help on the most basic stuff. A lot of it had to do with internal processes, and when he was new I didn’t mind helping because everyone is lost in the bureaucracy at first, but he never tried to learn anything beyond that. I think, like nearly every hyper-ambitious person I’ve known, he was only focused on the interpersonal relationships (“schmoozing”) that he thought would get him up the ladder, and really didn’t care to learn any of the nuts and bolts of the job. For those things, these people are experts at leeching off other people, who frankly are far more knowledgeable overall than they are. They’re a lot like the star quarterback in high school, who while he is basking in the glory and getting all the girls, is making the “nerds” do his homework so he doesn’t get kicked off the team.

I retired recently, and from what I’ve observed over a long career it is the rare exception when a C-level executive actually got to where they are based on true merit. Some of the most mediocre people are running companies today, and it’s even worse now because the price of entry to the C-suite today is your demonstrated level of “wokeness.” Corporate governance has become nothing but an exclusive club of morons with used car salesman personalities, all parroting the required woke jargon.

25 posted on 10/10/2021 2:09:26 PM PDT by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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To: Ouderkirk

Thank you for the feedback.

They can shove their “ideas” you know where.. :)


26 posted on 10/10/2021 2:09:36 PM PDT by RandFan
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To: srmanuel

1, Now add in the “some aspect”

2. It’s like college kids that get jobs with the big consulting firms. What exactly will they be able to consult on? They just got out of college and don’t know sh*t.

3. These MBA & Wall St types are responsible for 1000s losing their jobs every year. Fire as many as they can until the company is barely running. Then tell the ones that are left, if they don’t like it they’ll find someone that will gladly take their spot. That’s corporate America today. I could detail that exact thing with regards to CSX Railroad but I won’t.


28 posted on 10/10/2021 2:10:16 PM PDT by qaz123
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To: RandFan

This is just astounding. Nobody asks the question “How did he or she die?” before they start chiming in with their “solutions”. They sound like they are in Jr High.

Notice how all the students have a “Home Region”? Globalist claptrap.


29 posted on 10/10/2021 2:11:11 PM PDT by beef (The Chinese have a little secret—diversity is _not_ a strength.)
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To: RandFan

30 posted on 10/10/2021 2:11:52 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: RandFan

A Harvard MBA program is filled with greedy people who could not get into Harvard undergrad. MBA programs are easier to get into. You have to have someone pay for it. And its far more expensive for a one or two year program. You are not so much being educated as you are buying a $250,000 resume and being paraded in front of companies that Harvard charges to hire their MBAs. Its a business all around. Greed is everywhere.


31 posted on 10/10/2021 2:12:22 PM PDT by poinq
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To: alternatives?

Ah, makes sense in the current world. Gonna take more than that to give most HBS MBAs a conscience or a heart, however.


32 posted on 10/10/2021 2:14:49 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: humblegunner

Why are you seeking to distort the obvious?


33 posted on 10/10/2021 2:17:05 PM PDT by em2vn
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To: RandFan

This is just a misuse of Harvard. You don’t study at Harvard to learn about business. You study at Harvard to make connections and get the diploma. You learn about business anywhere else. Put the two together and off you go.


34 posted on 10/10/2021 2:17:25 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Leave. Us. Alone. )
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To: RandFan

The idiotic, leftist mentality to “shut down an entire mine if it can save one life in the future” mentality will end with us all starving to death in a decade.


35 posted on 10/10/2021 2:17:57 PM PDT by WMarshal ("Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither.")
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To: Kid Shelleen

You are close, but the professor really doesn’t even discuss capitalism or much about creating a product with value and making a profit.
Granted it is only a 10 minute video, but the content is a bunch of nothingness when it comes to business.


36 posted on 10/10/2021 2:18:50 PM PDT by cornfedcowboy ( )
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To: em2vn
Why are you seeking to distort the obvious?

Is that what I'm doing?

Here I thought I was just ragging on some fan-boy who claims to be the author of something that he is not.

37 posted on 10/10/2021 2:22:06 PM PDT by humblegunner
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To: RandFan

My uncle earned a Harvard MBA back in the late 1950s. In those days, it was actually worth something. And he got in through an entrance exam.


38 posted on 10/10/2021 2:25:23 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: SaxxonWoods

“You study at Harvard to make connections and get the diploma.”

That is such a waste of a young person’s mind and time. Do they want to grow up and be someone like John Kerry or George Bush?


39 posted on 10/10/2021 2:25:41 PM PDT by alternatives? (The only reason to have an army is to defend your borders,)
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To: null and void

I was basically fired by HP one time after working there for about 2 years.....

The manager of the team I was working on or I thought I was working on got it all started, one day I get an email from a woman who told me all the things I was not doing as part of her team...I did not understand, so I asked who I thought was my Manager, who said, yeah I forgot to tell you she’s your manager....

After several more major disagreements with this woman who came from HR to manage a team of IT Engineers....

The final straw was I was working on a big project that I had just wrapped up, she called me and said I was failing at my job, my major screw up was not completing an online ethics training course...I told her I have until Friday to do that, she said that was true for everyone except her team which committed to completing the training a week early...

I asked her, what was more important, completing the project for the customer or the ethics training...she said the ethics training. Immediately I told her, she was not qualified to manage Engineers and needed to go back to HR..

I knew my days were numbered but at that point I did not care...


40 posted on 10/10/2021 2:26:19 PM PDT by srmanuel (`)
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