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Re:Microsoft Looks to Cut Up to 18,000 Jobs by mikeryan on Thursday July 17, 2014 @10:29AM (#8047711)
I know a guy with an MBA who runs a successful interactive agency thats had 100% revenue growth year over year. His MBA has better trained him to handle the operations, accounting and marketing side of his business, since up to the point of starting his company he'd only worked as a software engineer.

YMMV.

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Re:Microsoft Looks to Cut Up to 18,000 Jobs by cookiecaper on Thursday July 17, 2014 @11:16AM (#8047972)
Indeed -- as I conceded in my original comment, some MBAs are smart and my experiences are anecdotes. Conflicting anecdotes certainly exist. However, the person I replied to stated that he/she did not understand why it was common to dislike MBAs, and I shared what I think is the primary reason.

Fully agree that YMMV, but generalizations are useful tools as long as we don't take them as absolutes.

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