Mba Kills Company

In the industry one often hears stories about how a successful, stable, but slow-growing company is taken over by "MBA types" and is ruined. The steps often involve:

Essentially the good reputation of the company is milked for short-term profits and the company is eventually killed or diminished in the process. In the end the marketplace is left with shitty oligopolies who don't have to really compete.

There are two economic incentives at play here:

It's a political side-effect of our laws encouraging short-term profits and lack of anti-trust enforcement, which is often painted as "meddling government intervention" and against laissez faire.


See also: WarningSignsOfCorporateDoom


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