Study Finds Engineers Far More Likely than MBAs to Build and Run Companies

Hi refurb, I compiled the statistics behind the white paper. We found several candidates with both MBAs and engineering degrees. However it was on the order of low tens so the sets are largely disjoint. We excluded it for the sake of clarity. Sorry if it wasn't clear.

Re: Study Finds Engineers Far More Likely than MBAs to Build and Run Companies

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Post by vinayan3 » Wed, Feb 01, 2012, 2:31 AM UTC

refurb wrote: post #5

I find it odd that the data was mutually exclusive. They didn't find a single CEO with both an MBA and engineering degree?

I think they cast anyone with a MBA into the MBA category. I know of one CEO who has both an engineer degree and MBA. The CEO of Adobe.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shantanu_Narayen

Re: Study Finds Engineers Far More Likely than MBAs to Build and Run Companies

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Post by benjaminRRR » Wed, Feb 01, 2012, 2:32 AM UTC

I've heard this a number of times anecdotally. I remember once going to the head of my university's business school as an alumni and he said you're one of the few that came out of this school that actually started a company. To which I replied I didn't, I came out of the school for Electrical Engineering. He laughed and said well that makes sense.

Re: Study Finds Engineers Far More Likely than MBAs to Build and Run Companies

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Post by ilamont » Wed, Feb 01, 2012, 2:42 AM UTC

vinayan3 wrote: post #8

refurb wrote: post #5

I find it odd that the data was mutually exclusive. They didn't find a single CEO with both an MBA and engineering degree?

I think they cast anyone with a MBA into the MBA category. I know of one CEO who has both an engineer degree and MBA. The CEO of Adobe. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shantanu_Narayen

CEO of Apple, too:

http://www.apple.com/pr/bios/tim-cook.html