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Does an MBA inoculate someone from making these judgment errors? If so, I personally know multiple MBA-holders who've made similar errors who should be informed
by cookiecaper 13y ago
Does an MBA inoculate someone from making these judgment errors? If so, I personally know multiple MBA-holders who've made similar errors who should be informed that they deserve their money back or something.
It's important to be aware of the necessity to perform those business functions that coders probably would rather not bother with, but once that happens, I find that technical people tend to make much, much better judgment calls than their business school superiors.
In reality, it's rare to find people who're daring enough to apply simple rationality across most or all spectra, regardless of their background. Unfortunately, an MBA seemingly does very little to mitigate this, and it's the core problem.
Yes, people could hypothetically learn, but most don't. I don't understand why we've all fooled ourselves into believing that four years of rote memorization and arbitrary compliance will do anything. I guess it being a much more fundamental problem is scary, because as simple as it may be, it's apparently quite difficult for most people to change.
We have a big problem with our educational and hiring cultures.
- ryanhuff 13y agoDoes an MBA inoculate someone from making these judgment errors? If so, I personally know multiple MBA-holders who've made similar errors who should be informed that they deserve their money back or something. An MBA inoculates somebody from making poor decisions just as much as anybody having expertise in any specific field. As you would agree, nobody is beyond making a poor decision. Let's also be clear than an MBA is a broadly defined credential, as there are a host of specializations (including Human Resources management, Marketing, Finance, etc) that are often bundled within the "degree". However, from what was described in the Everpix case, I am confident that somebody with the right mix of educational training in early-stage venture management (MBA w/entrepreneurship concentration) and smarts could have added value.