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Nadella got an engineering degree in India, followed up with a masters in the US - with that Booth MBA coming after he'd worked at Sun and Microsoft as an engin
by spamizbad 4y ago
Nadella got an engineering degree in India, followed up with a masters in the US - with that Booth MBA coming after he'd worked at Sun and Microsoft as an engineer.
Pretty much every "Wow this MBA does a good job of running a tech company!" person has a story similar to this where they trained and worked as an engineer before obtaining their MBA.
- Kon-Peki 4y agoOk fine :) Go read “The HP Way” by Dave Packard. It was standard procedure for HP to hire promising engineers from Flyover State U and take the best and send them to Stanford for an MBA. This worked really, really well. Until it didn’t.
- conductr 4y agoThat was the intent of the MBA, as a supplement to some other core expertise so they could manage the business effectively. Then, MBA's became an entire profession. Many consulting firm MBA's go to business school twice before having any real world experience (undergrad then MBA). I did business school for undergrad and refuse to get an MBA for this reason, I seriously had MBA students sitting in the classes I took as an undergrad.