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		VLM on June 10, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Costco does not hire business school graduates Away from producing good products and toward producing good numbers?

eli_gottlieb on June 10, 2013 [–]

Bingo. What management thinks is important is its internal metrics. What actually matters in the end is customer demand and cost of production.

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