Bush in Iraq: A B-School Case Study

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<<It's a conversation heard more and more around the halls of Harvard Business School these days: One of President George W. Bush's unique qualifications for office was his Harvard MBA. Yet the mess in postwar Iraq has revealed a lack of the careful planning that Harvard teaches its elite clientele.

And a related problem -- the ballooning federal budget deficit -- hints at much less financial discipline than B-school alums are supposed to have. "Because George is a graduate of the school, there's lots of casual discussion about what he learned, or didn't learn, while he was here," says David Yoffie, a Harvard Business School professor of international business administration.

Granted, leading a country is a bit more demanding than managing the Huggies diapers brand or running a BusinessWeek 50 company -- the sort of jobs Harvard MBAs typically hold. That goes double for trying to simultaneously manage an effort as unpredictable as invading, then rebuilding, another country.>>

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A B- president? I personally give him one big fat "F"!



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