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		jwhitlark on Nov 25, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Western Elite from a Chinese Perspective I don't know about Costco, but... The MBA was originally designed for people who had worked their way up from the bottom, and needed to backfill the theory.

eschaton on Nov 25, 2017 [–]

Originally. But of course the MBA was turned into a gatekeeping/filtering mechanism, to ensue only people with the right pedigree could be hired into roles “requiring” one.

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