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Time to reset the "days since MBAs ran a company into the ground" ticker, I guess?
by chc4 3y ago
Time to reset the "days since MBAs ran a company into the ground" ticker, I guess?
- dylan604 3y agoHas it ever reached 1?
- happytiger 3y agoOnce. In 1983. And management theory has been forever trying to do it again.
- fernandopj 3y agoDo elaborate!
- kome 3y agohmm, what?
- Geisterde 3y agoI think this is a thing in certain industries. Game development for instance; I feel like the more money a publisher has, the worse the result, and I would argue that one of the factors is an increase in corporate types. There hasnt been so much the implosion of those companies yet, but id wager in the next 5-10 years they will have to majorly trim down or perish. The corporate influence is too constricting for creative works. I imagine there are many businesses where MBAs make sense, and that any large company needs them.
- refurb 3y agoLOL. Vice was going into the toilet regardless of who ran it.
- andy800 3y agoVice only survived as long as it did because some MBAs insisted that if they wanted to do cool stuff (documentaries, TV channel) they needed to do something else on the side that actually generated revenue. The majority of Vice's revenue came via highly un-sexy "creative services" (i.e. producing TV commercials) and other advertising media.