Re:Why startups don’t die at large hedge funds
by pmc255 on Friday February 12, 2010 @02:24PM
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Agreed. This is one of the areas of business where the MBA graduates of this century can and should really focus on: restructuring the modern corporation to allow for proper incentives and encourage innovation. Companies these days are more internally communist, with top-down centralized command. See http://www.salaminder.com/2010/02/large-corporations-inheren...
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Re:Why startups don’t die at large hedge funds
by plinkplonk on Friday February 12, 2010 @07:35PM
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"This is one of the areas of business where the MBA graduates of this century can and should really focus on: restructuring the modern corporation to allow for proper incentives and encourage innovation."
MBA grads might be the worst people to attempt this. A typical MBA grad is no shape to make innovative changes in a corporation.
Re:Why startups don’t die at large hedge funds
by krav on Saturday February 13, 2010 @01:58PM
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Sorry to be harsh about this - but this is borne out of the reality of having worked with MBAs at startups and huge corporations: If you want innovation, first step - fire the MBAs.
Re:Why startups don’t die at large hedge funds
by ig1 on Sunday February 14, 2010 @12:05PM
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Or maybe you should learn to hire innovative MBAs ? - a lot of stupid MBA bashing completely ignores the fact that there are a lot of MBAs driving very successful start-ups and large tech companies. Especially if you look at business rather than consumer focused start-ups.
There are crappy MBAs just as there are crappy programmers. Thinking that all programmers are crappy because you've only worked with crappy programmers is a logical fallacy.