The company where I currently work, which is highly successful (ranked 9th fastest growing software company by Inc 500 last year) has a management team filled w

The company where I currently work, which is highly successful (ranked 9th fastest growing software company by Inc 500 last year) has a management team filled with PhD's, MBA's, and Management Consultants. Some ways in which the MBA/Management Consulting mentality has really helped the company: -Extreme customer focus. HN talks a lot about knowing your customer, but the management here takes it to a much higher level. The exacting level of detail of how well they understand users, as well as the amount of time/money they're willing to invest in training their employees to understand their customers is astounding, and pays in spades. -Really good Sales/Marketing -Since we started out with consulting, the company has always been profitable, and always had a very clear line of sight as to what brings in the money -Very well thought out, long term strategy. The company has the next several years planned out, yet the strategy is flexible enough to take into account new technological innovations, data from customer responses, and even new exceptional employees -Very well done hiring. I haven't met anyone at the company I would consider stupid-in fact, I haven't met anyone I wouldn't consider smart -Excellent resource management...even as the company has grown money and people are assigned to the projects that consistently provide the most leverage, rather than being tacked onto the emergency of the day Now the MBA/Management Consulting strength is not the only thing that has allowed the company to succeed-we are roughly 60% hackers and our CTO is absolutely phenomenal. But having management with such strong business skills is a MASSIVE force multiplier.