>>>>Master’s Degree in business. I give him great credit for putting his shoulder to the wheel and making that degree happen.<<<<<<
I once sat with my CEO as he interviewed candidates for a sales job. The CEO had an undergrad degree in physics and was a multi-zillionaire businessman.
One of the candidates was a very impressive guy, but he should never have mentioned his MBA. The Boss zeroed in on it with things like “What did it do for you? Was it worth it? What did you learn? Then why did you do it?” Et cetera.
The guy had a lot wrapped up in his MBA, and the Zillionaire Boss saw that and hammered on it. Said candidate collapsed and didn’t get the job.
There’s something about physics guys in the business world. They’re some of the people who are least able to buy bullcrap, even when wrapped up in a lot of fancy mathematics.
Look around at how many of the people calling this financial/debt crisis were physics jocks: Taleb, for one. The guy who did the math on Madoff’s claims and wrote to the SEC is another. There are others - I should put together a list of how many people with a physics or hard science background had the goods on all these idiot economists, MBA and “financial engineers” early on.
The Harvard MBA’s, however, starting with Bush and proceeding on to Paulson, and ending with the CEO of GM, are utterly clueless. But oh, they are so proud of having a Harvard MBA.
If I were in a position to be hiring now and someone came in my door bragging about a Harvard MBA trying to impress me, I’d launch him out an unopened window - preferably a second or higher story window.
hehehe...good story.