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MBAs extracted all value for the shareholders and now only the husk remains. Mission accomplished, onto the next.



Boeing shareholders haven't earned a proper return in half a decade, but the idiots kept voting in the same blockhead of a CEO. Serves 'em right.

Shareholders are almost always best served by a product-first CEO who maximizes the long-term value proposition of the company.


I can't see why you're being downvoted.

The unfortunate reality is that those who implement policies that produce short term gain but long term costs that strike after they have moved on look better than those who actually look to the long haul.


<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40997848>

Even if one agrees with the sentiment, it doesn't much advance the discussion, and there's ample shallow commentary on the thread already.


Why solve a problem for real when pretending to solve it is so much more profitable?




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