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You answered your own question. HP took engineers and taught them how to be MBAs, while companies are ruined by career MBAs who were never engineers and were taught in school to see engineering as a cost center that must always be reduced to the lowest bidder.


Nadella was a full-time engineer at Sun while getting his part-time MBA ;)




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