Comments on: What is Wrong with MBA’s http://management.curiouscatblog.net/2006/11/02/what-is-wrong-with-mbas/ Management Improvement focused on Deming, lean thinking, innovation, customer focus, six sigma, etc. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:35:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog » Harvard’s Masters of the Apocalypse http://management.curiouscatblog.net/2006/11/02/what-is-wrong-with-mbas/comment-page-1/#comment-33500 Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog » Harvard’s Masters of the Apocalypse Wed, 11 Mar 2009 13:11:59 +0000 http://management.curiouscatblog.net/2006/11/02/what-is-wrong-with-mbas/#comment-33500 "Time after time, and scandal after scandal, it seems that a school that graduates just 900 students a year finds itself in the thick of it. Yet there is remarkably little contrition..." “Time after time, and scandal after scandal, it seems that a school that graduates just 900 students a year finds itself in the thick of it. Yet there is remarkably little contrition…”

]]> By: Josh Hohman http://management.curiouscatblog.net/2006/11/02/what-is-wrong-with-mbas/comment-page-1/#comment-32884 Josh Hohman Wed, 22 Oct 2008 02:46:38 +0000 http://management.curiouscatblog.net/2006/11/02/what-is-wrong-with-mbas/#comment-32884 Unfortunately, I tend to agree with your assessment of (most) MBAs (I'm a 2005 grad from the Stanford GSB). Of course, it is hasty to make generalizations based on MBA's as a whole. Unfortunately, I tend to agree with your assessment of (most) MBAs (I'm a 2005 grad from the Stanford GSB). Of course, it is hasty to make generalizations based on MBA's as a whole.

]]> By: Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog » Motivate or Eliminate De-Motivation http://management.curiouscatblog.net/2006/11/02/what-is-wrong-with-mbas/comment-page-1/#comment-32817 Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog » Motivate or Eliminate De-Motivation Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:51:17 +0000 http://management.curiouscatblog.net/2006/11/02/what-is-wrong-with-mbas/#comment-32817 I still see far to many managers thinking in a theory x way - 50 years after McGregor’s The Human Side of Enterprise. If there was not such a systemic failure to apply effective management practices and such a desire to substitute motivation for management I wouldn’t see this as a big deal... I still see far to many managers thinking in a theory x way – 50 years after McGregor’s The Human Side of Enterprise. If there was not such a systemic failure to apply effective management practices and such a desire to substitute motivation for management I wouldn’t see this as a big deal…

]]> By: Evolving Excellence http://management.curiouscatblog.net/2006/11/02/what-is-wrong-with-mbas/comment-page-1/#comment-455 Evolving Excellence Thu, 16 Nov 2006 01:41:57 +0000 http://management.curiouscatblog.net/2006/11/02/what-is-wrong-with-mbas/#comment-455 <strong>Answering Their Own Question...</strong> Page 48 of the November 27th edition of Forbes has two short articles that have a definite relationship. I doubt the editor realized it at the time. The first, titled Why Detroit Can't Compete, details the average vehicle price differences... Answering Their Own Question…

Page 48 of the November 27th edition of Forbes has two short articles that have a definite relationship. I doubt the editor realized it at the time. The first, titled Why Detroit Can’t Compete, details the average vehicle price differences…

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