Elon Musk Decries ‘M.B.A.-ization’ of America

Post by babesh » Sun, Dec 13, 2020, 7:42 PM UTC

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inglor_cz wrote: post #2

He is onto something there. Bean counting is useful and companies cannot survive without good cashflow, but it should not become Mission A of the company, or engineering (and other) talent will look elsewhere. If one company's de facto mission statement is "We want to grow our market by 8.2 per cent and give our bosses higher Christmas bonuses" and another one comes and says "Guys, we want to fly to fscking Mars!", c…

>"We want to grow our market by 8.2 per cent and give our bosses higher Christmas bonuses" This isn't a bad thing. Profit and price are, in most cases, still reasonable signals for what consumers want, and growing your market means you're serving real demand in the actual world. This is what creates employment and utility. Flying to Mars and ignoring market share is nice but doesn't serve any actual point, other than…

Post by clouddrover » Sun, Dec 13, 2020, 9:10 PM UTC

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clouddrover wrote: post #172

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Performance is more than just drag racing. The Taycan out performs the Model S on track as well. It's just a better car and, yes, that costs money. > The ID.3 seems to have a stated range of ~200 miles? There are 3 usable battery sizes for 3 different range figures: 48kWh (205 miles WLTP), 58kWh (261 miles), and 77kWh (342 miles).

On track? Which one? Care to share the video evidence? All I've seen are 1/4 mile drag races that show that yes, indeed, the Taycann has a 2 speed gearbox. There isn't really a big advantage outside of that.

Post by jbn » Mon, Dec 14, 2020, 7:17 PM UTC

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nashashmi wrote: post #61

What’s the point of an MBA? Asking anyone this question who pursues the degree or has pursued the degree or insists on its value, often gives a non-answer. Like the following: * it helps with networking. * it helps with promotion. * it helps with advancement in career. * it helps with your resume. Boiling it down, “I can show off better and tout an imaginary quality”. If I was a person who was self employed or runnin…

> As an engineer, I think we need something else. Masters in engineering administration. Teaching engineers how to deal with bs that takes 5 years of career to figure out The "Executive MBA" is trying to fill this void, I believe. I'm a mid-career corp finance exec that has painstakingly resisted the inertial forces that want me to obtain an MBA. I do not see the value from an investment or knowledge perspective (I w…

Post by thewileyone » Tue, Dec 15, 2020, 5:58 AM UTC

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Something interesting has struck me about this thread. In almost every HN thread about higher education, there is a very strong if not prevailing view, that advanced degrees are primarily a form of empty credentialing or signaling. Yet a search for those terms in this thread yields almost no hits. I wonder if what's missing here is a deeper dive into what MBA's actually learn in business school, if anything. Sure, th…

> I wonder if what's missing here is a deeper dive into what MBA's actually learn in business school, if anything. A friend with an aerospace engineering degree said there was only one thing in his MBA program that he couldn't have figured out with a little thought. That was the principle of comparative advantage. He said what made it worth it was the great network that he built.

Post by clouddrover » Sun, Dec 20, 2020, 10:23 PM UTC

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> On track? Which one? Any track: https://www.thedrive.com/news/5207/this-video-reminds-us-tha...

I don't see any mention of the Taycann on that link...