The honorable People of the Corporation would never dream of altering their annual reports to the Market by overstating production in order to recieve the Good Capitalist award and gain foreign travel privileges from the Corporation Planning Committee - you sir are certainly an imperialist spy for suggesting otherwise and should be sent for Reeducation!
I've lived on the East and now the West coasts, and the manager caste ideology of the East is clearly why the West has completely dominated in innovative business sectors. Boston and Cambridge should be Silicon Valley and almost was, but the mentality killed it. Being a maker and a doer actually pegs you as a lower class, or at least that's the mentality I ran into.
I actually had people there tell me I should not "do." "Executives don't do anything." Direct quote.
https://www.amazon.com/Quiet-Power-Introverts-World-Talking-...
It turns out that to manage things effectively you need to understand them. Who knew?
I used to live in Boston and a friend (who went to Harvard) once related to me his view that the point of this was to ensure high earning employment for the otherwise inexperienced and overly sheltered children of the wealthy.
The other contribution of HBS was to deeply entrench the cult of "presence," extroversion, and alpha signaling as the single most important quality for leadership. There's an excellent book whose title is escaping me that gives a great history of the "extrovert ideal" in the West.