Its not the MBA, its the background of those calling the shots. Having people who were purely finance/marketing/business people be in charge of an engineering

Its not the MBA, its the background of those calling the shots. Having people who were purely finance/marketing/business people be in charge of an engineering company is asking for trouble. So an engineer/STEM works in the industry, then later gets an MBA, that's a different story. If Boeing just wants to be a marketing/finance company they should fire all their engineers and contract it out to someone who actually cares. I don't think this should be all that controversial. People with a medical background should run hospitals/clincs, people from creative backgrounds should run media companies, people with finance backgrounds should run finance companies etc. Of course, you need to know some finance/marketing/management to get that high up the corporate ladder. The problem is the thinking that those types know how to run every business, just because of their 'Wharton/Harvard/etc. MBA