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Steve Ballmer does not have an MBA.
by bhousel 14y ago
Steve Ballmer does not have an MBA.
- meaty 14y agoI should have made the more generic point "MBA types" (high business, executives etc). Not specifically MBAs.
- bhousel 14y agoNo.
- PeterisP 14y agoThe vast majority of MBA's are not executives, but work in either mid-management or finance-specialist jobs (accounting, audit, financing, etc). Are you sure that MBA-typical people are really what you call "MBA types" ? In mass media you'd be seeing only a small, very nonrepresentative, very biased sample of them.
- meaty 14y agoYes entirely. I work in the financial sector and deal with ALL levels of management that you mention above. In fact, I regularly deal with an organisation that has 2500 managerial staff. I've been on the end of management politics for 20 years as well so I know how it works. I've watched climbers and sinkers and the climbers are ruthless and have a statistically higher quantity of MBAs between them (it's amazing what you can suck out of linkedin).
- huxley 14y agoTo be exact, he dropped out of the Stanford Graduate School of Business MBA program to join Microsoft.
- rbanffy 14y agoBut I wouldn't rule the personality disorder out. Neither for him, nor his predecessor.