Posted on 02/03/2010 9:56:03 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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.
Gee, and I was giving Yale all the credit. I guess Harvard get's another winner on it's Dean's list.
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.
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.
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.
Obama’s ALLEGED degrees. No one has actually ever seen them.
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.
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The Peter Principle in action.
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?
Uhhh...I don’t believe Jefferson or Madison saw any military service.
Both were Colonels in the Virginia militia, IIRC, although, you’re correct that neither of them were combat commanders.
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