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Re:Silicon Valley firms in no hurry to open up offices despi... by tehjoker on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @04:14PM (#26572320)
People without business degrees tend to consider more variables than simply optimizing the business for profit extraction at any cost. No guarantee, but that's what an MBA trains people to do. For some reason, doing that causes all kinds of social problems that were completely unanticipated by philosophers in the 1800s.
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Re:Silicon Valley firms in no hurry to open up offices despi... by ericmay on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @04:21PM (#26572389)
That might be what some MBA programs do for some graduates but I can at least give you a data point that the MBA program I attended spends a lot of time focusing on how that type of extraction is bad for long-term business.

There are some cases where it actually is perfectly ok to extract value from a business before winding it down. But that doesn't mean that all of a sudden anybody with an MBA degree is some sort of ruthless capitalist.

I got an MBA because I wanted to learn more about business, network, and hopefully adjust my own personal career path.

I can say for Fisher (Ohio State) we spent a lot of time focusing on not just great ways to make money or improve a business, but on people too. At least that was my experience. I'd guess if you spend a lot of time around "ruthless MBAs" you should take a look at what universities they're coming from and see if they have anything in common.

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Re:Silicon Valley firms in no hurry to open up offices despi... by justapassenger on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @04:42PM (#26572616)
My software engineering classes taught me really well how to implement red black trees. They shouldn’t, so I don’t use them when they aren’t right tool for the job and I should use linked list instead?

That’s the main problem I have with MBA sentiment here. Somehow knowing about something is bad. That’s a very naive viewpoint.

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