Comments on: Venture Capitalists Blame MBAs for Industry Downturn

By: JW

JW — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:44:11 +0000

MBA degree teaches you the general management, financial, and marketing skills to run or start a company. A individual that graduates with an MBA degree, even from a top school, knows very little on how the intricate details the company he/she is working for but to rely on other more senior managers or directors to show them the ropes, what he/she is taught OJT is not the problem of the school. The MBA degree gives you the opportunity to get into a great company, we cannot blame schools for bad decision makeing or lack of common sense by their students. We all like to hide behind the numbers but sometimes it make sense to step back and take a look at the whole picture and I believe MBA schools teach that pretty well but it is up to the individual to use it.

By: MBA, Too

MBA, Too — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:52:40 +0000

Well, the bigger problem is that our nation’s players in government were the first to allow the greed game especially with the likes of Madoff. Investors and the Hedge Fund industry encourage the buying of CDO’s instead of Treasury bonds. There are many factors to blame that have nothing to do with “MBA’s.”

By: Ron

Ron — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:46:58 +0000

As the holder of an MBA from “another” school that was accredited by the same board of higher education that certifies all MBA programs, I find it strange how others feel that only Harvard and Stanford grads are valuable. Having graduated with honors and having saved my various employers hundreds of millions of dollars over the years (many of which were smaller than $50 million in sales) I find my abilities to turn around poorly run companies exceptional and often find myself correcting the wrongs of many such Harvard and Stanford predecessors who focused on the financial instead of the operational problems of a company. I’ll stack up my capabilities any day, any time and any where because as a Process Improvement expert, I know how to fix problems to make money and margin, not just how to manipulate the numbers to make Wall Street happy. Investors want LONG TERM value not short term profits that are unsustainable. I’m ready when you are.