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Re:Google’s “20% time,” which brought you Gmail and AdSense,... by dkrich on Friday August 16, 2013 @04:16PM (#6226528)
Yep, absolutely correct. Well, save for Nike, which was founded by an MBA. Oh yeah, and Apple, whose CEO has an MBA and was personally selected by Steve Jobs. Well, now that I think about it, Meg Whitman, the current CEO of HP and former CEO of eBay has an MBA. And wasn't Bonobos founded by a Stanford MBA? I think Birchbox was born by a group of MBA's as well.

Except for those and probably thousands of other exceptions, your logic is water-tight and well-reasoned. Kudos, sir.

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Re:Google’s “20% time,” which brought you Gmail and AdSense,... by bskap on Friday August 16, 2013 @05:33PM (#6226859)
But Apple's founder didn't have an MBA. You know, the guy that came back in 1997 and brought the company from the brink of bankruptcy after it's collapse under the leadership of John Sculley, MBA.
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Re:Google’s “20% time,” which brought you Gmail and AdSense,... by yuhong on Friday August 16, 2013 @05:47PM (#6226912)
So I wonder what positions the good MBAs tend to be in vs the bad, for example which kind are more likely to be big company CxOs.
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Re:Google’s “20% time,” which brought you Gmail and AdSense,... by jlgreco on Friday August 16, 2013 @06:53PM (#6227184)
Either it is a meritocracy for them, in which case we can draw some really nasty conclusions using people like Sculley, or they aren't operating in a meritocracy, which jives with the other accusations leveled at them....
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Re:Google’s “20% time,” which brought you Gmail and AdSense,... by ericd on Friday August 16, 2013 @07:18PM (#6227416)
Did I miss HP turning around and becoming an awesome company again? Has Apple been doing as well as it did under Jobs? Do you think it still will be in 5 years?
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Re:Google’s “20% time,” which brought you Gmail and AdSense,... by dkrich on Monday August 19, 2013 @12:50PM (#6238197)
Did I miss HP turning around and becoming an awesome company again?

Apparently. Have you checked the stock market lately?

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Re:Google’s “20% time,” which brought you Gmail and AdSense,... by ericd on Wednesday August 21, 2013 @04:57AM (#6248933)
Yeah, we're in the middle of a massive bull run which has swelled every company in my portfolio like a balloon. And the correlation between stock price and awesome company in the short run is really really tenuous. Many of the less savory leaders out there have a penchant for making short term profits look awesome by killing off investment in long term prospects, and the market eats it up.
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