I've always seen the cancer as MBAs only hire MBAs, and that's how it grows. Its very difficult to get to a senior level in most organizations without an MBA.
> MBAs only hire MBAs
Maybe the CEO in such cases often is an MBA and you are a bit talking about the same thing, just from different perspectives? (Looking at the one person, vs the people, at the top?)
https://fortune.com/education/articles/how-valuable-is-an-mb...
> MBA grads made up nearly 40% of C-suite executives on the 2022 Fortune 1000 list
Wow so many (I think), but maybe they aren't CEOs.
Here's 43% from Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/MBA/comments/u26w7r/from_mba_to_for...
> I have compiled the following for the 2021 Fortune 500 US companies (the last global one I've seen is from FT in 2015 https://ig.ft.com/sites/mba-to-ceo/):
> 43% of CEOs have an MBA
Anyway,what happens if the CEO is an engineer, and everyone reporting to him/her is an MBA :-)
And many of my former bosses.
Maybe that's a symptom of the same disease ("without mba you cannot rule"), but I think it doesn't necessarily mean an MBA holder is a bad candidate for leadership.
Interesting! (Imagine the opposite: Getting an engineering degree, to become a Fortune 500 CEO when already having an MBA. In aviation for example)
> doesn't necessarily mean an MBA holder is a bad candidate for leadership
Yeah, and that many MBAs might rather indicate that there are many who are really good at it? ... Although not the Boing minded ones apparently