“Perhaps an Ivy League diploma doesn’t mean much in the real world, and there should be a twenty year moratorium barring these hot-house flowers from taking government positions”
I worked for a company, larger than Kodak (in its good years) that had been in business 88 years without a single layoff.
Between the two owners, they had 3 sons that were sent to Harvard and returned with their MBAs and proceeded, in 3 very short years, to run the company into bankruptcy and gobbled up by a Japanese firm and now is a shadow of its former self.
I then worked for a company which, at the time, was the world’s largest commercial printer, and the majority stockholder died and left his useless son to run the place. He used all his wonderful MBA skills to run that company into bankruptcy.
Anecdotal to be sure, but in my experience someone with minimal expertise running anything using only theories from their MBA is dangerous.
I've always said MBA means "Master Bullsh*t Artist".