A genius? A Vayner?

Only two MBA programs in the world responded to the Japanese challenge of the 1980s fundamentally, by restructuring their entire MBA experience--Sloan at MIT and McGill. All the others kept the economics first, finance first bias that made for the current global disaster and many future ones. However, Sloan and McGill are heartily embracing the banal, vulgar, venal, shallow culture of Americans and American businessmen, in particular, the swinging glands monkey-hierarchy crap that makes innovation levels so petty in US firms in spite of much boasting, bragging, braggadocio, pompous posing, and self inflation. The top 10 business schools in the United States produce monsters as graduates--truly spiritually, socially, psychically, crippled stunted facsimiles of human beings. Just try staying awake during lunch conversations with any of these pompous self promotatory bastards they now produce!!!!!! Talking to a dog turd is far more enlightening and morale boosting!!!!!

Secondly, and this is both profound and profoundly underestimated--ONLY STANFORD got business culture right--not MIT, not McGill and certainly no program in Europe. That is, Stanford and Stanford alone installed a feminine culture on campus in their business program--a culture of sharing not hoarding information, of forming deep personal friendships on campus as the basis for venture founder sets, and a culture of encouraging idea theft and copying, not idea hoarding--so that flows of people, of funds, of ideas, of technologies, of resources intersect in swirls till they each find "homes" in Silicon Valley but NOT in route 128 and NOT around Cambridge and Oxford and NOT around INSEAD and IMD--because those places have blue suit monkey cultures not t shirt human cultures, those places look always upward into the ass of the higher rank monkey not look horizontal to customers and suppliers, those places hoard to get ahead not share to get ahead. Only Stanford got the culture thing right--productivity and innovativity are ALWAYS gotten ONLY by feminizing systems of work. See my book, purchasable on https://www.youpublish.com/richard-tabor-greene Getting Real About Creativity in Business for details.

Thirdly, and this is really profound--technology and technical change are ONLY growing bigger and growing faster in speed in our futures--so MOST of "management" will be either dumb ass morons with silly slight levels of math such as MBA programs teach trying desperately to understand systems newly invented, or it will be technically smart, math powerful engineering types leading and managing systems with huge growing technical contents. You see--it used to be that technology was cul-de-sac-able, isolatable, so you assigned nerds to handle it--now it is everywhere, very big, and determining nearly all business outcomes--so the idea of Harvard math-light-heads (Harvard's MBA courses teach mostly high school levels, in Japan, of math) managing MIT engineers is old, passe, useless. Technology is too big and growing too fast and both of those will get very much worse in the future--the future of management is people with excellent ability to deeply grasp any new technology and an excellent set of CEO-like social skills for lying and pampering and manipulating pschopathologically and charming and selling. The nerd engineer has NO hope because technology touches people everywhere in business and the light-head humanities Harvard guy has no hope because without deep abiding understanding of technology his "managing" become periperal as technology invades all processes everywhere in markets, businesses, lifestyles, and the economy.

So there IS no one good choice--go anywhere BUT Stanford and you get swinging glands male culture stupidities that stymie and ruin ventures, go anywhere but McGill and Sloan and you get the same old finance bias that missed how to compete with Japan and how to handle the internet, go anywhere but Sloan no tech!!!

Later, when I got my first academic job, 2 years before my PHD was complete, at the University of Chicago Grad School of Business, without applying for the job at all, and after demanding that they double their initial salary offer, the Dean called me into his office for chastizing--I was the most expensive faculty move in the history, not only of the B school, but of the entire university! 22,000 books in 250+ boxes had made moving me from Rochester New York more expensive than moving 4 Nobel Laureates. He demanded and later got, from me, a photo of my personal library--completely filling all walls and middle room shelves in two rooms of my 4 bedroom apartment in Regent's Park by the lake.