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Re:DOD Just Beginning to Grapple with Scale of Weapon System... by ryandrake on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @06:19PM (#18180309)
The assumption that MBAs do not have domain experience is often incorrect. Stereotyping is supposedly frowned on in the comments here.
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Re:DOD Just Beginning to Grapple with Scale of Weapon System... by 394549 on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @07:02PM (#18180568)
> The assumption that MBAs do not have domain experience is often incorrect. Stereotyping is supposedly frowned on in the comments here.

Obviously not. I think the critique is about MBAs who don't have domain experience and don't think they need it, because they have a generically-applicable "management skill." That ponderous specification is typically shortened to "MBAs" for brevity, since it apparently has some root in ideology that's common in business schools.

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Re:DOD Just Beginning to Grapple with Scale of Weapon System... by nradov on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @08:04PM (#18180870)
No modern business school actually teaches such an ideology. Have you ever attended one?
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Re:DOD Just Beginning to Grapple with Scale of Weapon System... by Nasrudith on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @11:57PM (#18181839)
I think MBA in its usage implicit means 'with no domain experience' because otherwise there would be a reference to as their most relevant skillset in the field. If someone has domain experience they are a 'senior engineer' with the MBA only coming up if that aspect is relevant. If someone doesn't have and they make it they are just a MBA.
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