A plain MBA can be likened to a vulture over a late-stage dessicating corpse. Too extreme, sure, but MBAs rarely, if ever, pay off for the company hiring them.

A plain MBA can be likened to a vulture over a late-stage dessicating corpse. Too extreme, sure, but MBAs rarely, if ever, pay off for the company hiring them. It's just that the blame and the losses get distributed. You can't avoid MBAs, they're an invented, coerced requirement like lawyers. Getting sued by another lawyer because you don't have some guy running defense for you (as long as you fill his pockets -- indeed the lawyer against you would be ready to bat FOR you if the circumstances were right) is ridiculous.