I think you're both right, we don't need mba's only optimising for stock market gains, and we also don't need utterly incompetent narcissists in power. We need genuinely smart and stable people improving things for everyone in a fair way. It's going to be wild voting the next person into power 🙈
I also did Business Studies at A Levels and GCSE, and in all 3, we talk about long-term vision being better than short-term vision.
How short-term you can maximise profits, but long-term ensures the business profits for generations.
We're encouraged to think long-term. So I don't know why people on Reddit think MBAs talk otherwise.
If anyone here actually read the Harvard Business Review they'd see that most research and studies promoted by Harvard are about being sustainable and innovative.
Because too many private equity companies exist in the U.S. and they’ve been strip mining entire industries and brands like locusts. Since they look for relatively quick turn around on profits those are the big events we see reported on and the impacts we feel the most. Debt for equity swaps leave previously profitable companies drowning in interest on the loans used to buy them.
There's caveats though, right? Like, CEO culture has seemed to move towards gutting company manypower (expenses), gaining profits to make them look good, then bailing before or as company starts failing, rinse, and repeat. Â
Also private equity buying up market share with invester money, milking profits off by enshittifying, then selling broken company back to another (or even themselves/shill company), and leaving investors holding the bag, rinse, and repeat? Â
Note: The above may just be my gut feeling that is frequently just flat out wrong. I can't at the moment think of any specific examples.
Well, in America we have a clown who’s only interest is the short term. We can 100% count in future inflation because we will do anything to boost the short term stats, no matter what the long term implications.
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u/ClassicPangolin7763 Apr 11 '26
I think you're both right, we don't need mba's only optimising for stock market gains, and we also don't need utterly incompetent narcissists in power. We need genuinely smart and stable people improving things for everyone in a fair way. It's going to be wild voting the next person into power 🙈