This type of mentality is the reason that I stopped halfway between my HBS 2+2 application when I was able to apply. MBA culture is that of stagnant, tepid growth with a fortune 500 company. I was attracted to business from a social sciences background because I could see that some companies positively impact the world- but not the kind a high-level MBA sets you up to fit in with.
Zynga CEO Mark Pyncus, scolds new HBS dean on ethics (2006)
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Re: Zynga CEO Mark Pyncus, scolds new HBS dean on ethics (2006)
#32just a typical MBA - ramping up to comfortable number of millions by "I did every horrible thing in the book just to get revenues" and changing business model to preaching after that.
I especially like that "donations" business. Some years ago, a recent immigrant, i was surprised by how actively everybody would be harvesting donations ... until i learned that it is only (100-x)% that makes it to the charities, where "x" can be whatever donation harvester deems "expenses"
Re: Zynga CEO Mark Pyncus, scolds new HBS dean on ethics (2006)
#33I tried to read this, really I did, but the lack of capitalization makes me want to die a swift death. You're writing to the Harvard Business School. Man up and use the shift key already.
The lack of a blank line (or any vertical space) between paragraphs is what makes it particularly unreadable for me. It looks like the source does separate the paragraphs, so seems like a bad choice of CSS.
Thank God for Readability: http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/
Doesn't fix everything, but it sure helps.
Re: Zynga CEO Mark Pyncus, scolds new HBS dean on ethics (2006)
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
What we're missing from that quote is context. Also, it appears to have worked for Mr. Pincus and not for his competitors, obviously he did something a little different.
> it appears to have worked for Mr. Pincus and not for his competitors, obviously he did something a little different. Couldn't that be attributed to his company having a larger user base and more money than its competition?
But how did he get the large user base?
Re: Zynga CEO Mark Pyncus, scolds new HBS dean on ethics (2006)
#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
> it appears to have worked for Mr. Pincus and not for his competitors, obviously he did something a little different. Couldn't that be attributed to his company having a larger user base and more money than its competition?
But how did he get the large user base?
Simple: by being the first to succeed.
But that doesn't make the means to attain continued success less evil.