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America's monumental failure of management (Many Harvard MBA Grads are failures as Executives)
VMHN.ORG via Globe and Mail ^ | 03/2009 | HENRY MINTZBERG

Posted on 02/03/2010 9:56:03 AM PST by SeekAndFind

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To: Buckeye McFrog

I earned my MBA in 1992, at age 52, after earning my MS in 1990. I was still working at IBM, and had recently moved to “Technical Marketing Representative” from Systems Engineer. IBM was paying the full cost of both programs, and I am certain that these two “tickets” were the key to completing the 30 years at IBM that provided for the full, defined benefit retirement benefits I began to receive December 1, 1995.

These were the years when IBM broke its implied full employment policy and began large scale layoffs of long term, productive employees.

But during those years, they hired paid interns to work with us over the summers - and locally, we had one of the prizes, a Harvard MBA candidate. However, she was REALLY naive about information technology in general, and computers in particular.

What I found disturbing was the deference shown by local management to this young lady not even half way TO her MBA.


21 posted on 02/03/2010 11:33:46 AM PST by MainFrame65 (The US Senate: World's greatest PREVARICATIVE body!.)
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To: SeekAndFind
"Dubya was a Harvard MBA Grad"

Gee, and I was giving Yale all the credit. I guess Harvard get's another winner on it's Dean's list.

22 posted on 02/03/2010 11:44:41 AM PST by gitmogrunt (The stupidity of American Liberals never ceases to amaze me.)
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To: SeekAndFind

There was an article about seven or eight years ago in one of the magazines in the Forbes/Fortune category pointing out how Harvard MBAs can generally be counted on to torpedo their employers.


23 posted on 02/03/2010 12:18:31 PM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: TheClintons-STILLAnti-American
College professors are one of few professions--along with politicians, with enough media cover--where people can go through their entire career spouting their pseudo-wisdom insulated from ever having their theories tested in reality.

But as the author points out, that's not the case anymore. CEOs can fail and just float on their golden parachute to another position.

24 posted on 02/03/2010 12:23:18 PM PST by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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To: SeekAndFind
As they say in Texas, Harvard MBAs are All Hat, No Cattle.

Years ago, at a Naval Reserve weekend, I was in the BOQ one night doing homework for UMass Business School. It dealt with lineral transporation, a gruesome stew of calculus and statistics. My roommate, a Harvard Business School student, asked me what I was doing. I explained and said that surely he had the same sort of homework? No, he didn't. What about the three semesters of calculus and statics UMass students had? Blank look. No, they didn't do any of that at Harvard. I asked what they did. "We read cases." Huh? Without any finance or math? Yup. They read cases for several years, graduated, and got huge-paying jobs on Wall Street. I'll never forget that conversation.

25 posted on 02/03/2010 12:36:36 PM PST by pabianice
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To: donaldo

Obama’s ALLEGED degrees. No one has actually ever seen them.


26 posted on 02/03/2010 12:38:58 PM PST by pabianice
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To: SeekAndFind; Mrs. B.S. Roberts

I have found that an MBA is a person, overeducated, overconfident, overpaid and underworked who cannot make it to his/her 15th floor executive office unless the elevator is maintained by a qualified repair person who has greasy hands, stained clothes, callused hands, and a sure knowledge of his own place in the world order.
If you don’t know who REALLY keeps this world going minute by minute or day by day, then you may have an MBA.


27 posted on 02/03/2010 1:06:31 PM PST by CaptainAmiigaf (NY TIMES: "We print the news as it fits our views")
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To: SeekAndFind

btt


28 posted on 02/03/2010 4:41:42 PM PST by Cacique (quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat ( Islamia Delenda Est ))
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To: SeekAndFind

bflr


29 posted on 02/03/2010 10:58:28 PM PST by Kevmo (So America gets what America deserves - the destruction of its Constitution. ~Leo Donofrio, 6/1/09)
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To: SeekAndFind

The Peter Principle in action.


30 posted on 02/03/2010 10:59:00 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: SeekAndFind

Hayes and Teddy Roosevelt were also military officers.

So, I’ll see your list of Harvard grads and raise you a list of Presidents with military service:

Washington
Jefferson
Madison
Monroe
Jackson
Harrison
Tyler
Taylor
Fillmore
Pierce
Grant
Hayes
Garfield
Arthur

Need I go on?


31 posted on 02/04/2010 8:47:35 AM PST by Terabitten (Vets wrote a blank check, payable to the Constitution, for an amount up to and including their life.)
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To: Terabitten

Uhhh...I don’t believe Jefferson or Madison saw any military service.


32 posted on 02/04/2010 9:19:07 AM PST by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: RJS1950

Both were Colonels in the Virginia militia, IIRC, although, you’re correct that neither of them were combat commanders.


33 posted on 02/04/2010 3:37:54 PM PST by Terabitten (Vets wrote a blank check, payable to the Constitution, for an amount up to and including their life.)
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