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Re:Costco does not hire business school graduates by eli_gottlieb on Monday June 10, 2013 @07:30AM (#5853594)
Actually, if I had to guess, I'd say it's domain expertise. A lack of MBAs is good, because MBAs turn your company away from getting good at what it actually does/sells and towards generic "being a good company" stuff.
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Re:Costco does not hire business school graduates by VLM on Monday June 10, 2013 @08:15AM (#5853793)
Away from producing good products and toward producing good numbers?
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Re:Costco does not hire business school graduates by eli_gottlieb on Monday June 10, 2013 @09:15AM (#5854080)
Bingo. What management thinks is important is its internal metrics. What actually matters in the end is customer demand and cost of production.
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