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"Apple, which recently usurped Microsoft as the world’s largest technology firm (by market capitalisation), has hardly any MBAs among its top ranks." Tim Cook
by wheels 16y ago
"Apple, which recently usurped Microsoft as the world’s largest technology firm (by market capitalisation), has hardly any MBAs among its top ranks."
Tim Cook has an MBA from Fuqua, one of the top MBA programs in the US. Was that really that hard to fact-check?
- hugh3 16y agoWell, if he's the only one then that's still "hardly any". Is he the only one? I don't know.
- wheels 16y agoSix of the 25 people listed here have MBAs, and several don't mention college at all, so it's probably more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Apple_Inc._executives http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Apple_Inc._executives It actually saddens me that this article is being voted up. It's more evidence of the phenomena of people upvoting articles whose thesis they agree with rather than those which enlighten an issue. The article adds virtually nothing to an already tired discourse.
- mbesto 16y agoThe phenomena is called Cognitive Dissonance [1] and more-so probably Illusion-of-truth [2] effect. That being said, if anyone is interested in the half-truths of getting an MBA, read Josh Kaufman's The Personal MBA[3]. The first few chapters analytically and precisely decipher the myths around the MBA. In fact he doesn't go as far as to say "Don't get an MBA", rather "Here are the facts, make your own decision". [1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance [2] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implicit_memory#Illusion-of-truth_effect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implicit_memory#Illusion-of-tru... [3] - http://personalmba.com/ http://personalmba.com/
- othermaciej 16y agoMost of those people aren't current Apple executives. Current execs here: <http://www.apple.com/pr/bios/> http://www.apple.com/pr/bios/> I count 4 MBAs out of 11 current execs: Cook, Oppenheimer, Johnson, Williams. By comparison, there's 5 with science or engineering degrees, 1 with a J.D., and 1 with no degree.
- hugh3 16y agoAh, thankyou, so finally we have an answer to the question "Is it true that hardly any current Apple executives have MBAs?" and the answer is "No". Four out of eleven is a minority, but doesn't count as "hardly any".
- scottshapiro 16y agoApple had 60+ MBA summer interns in 2010.