Magna Cum Lousy: Where Today’s Bad CEOs Went to School
March 24th, 2009Bad? Business School sophomores will be masturbating to posters of these crooks. They’re heroes to the would-be swindler class.
Watch Wall Street again. That thing is timeless—except for the fact that, in real life, the Gordon Geckos of the world generally don’t go to jail. Maybe they’ll get it right in the sequel, Money Never Sleeps.
Via: Business Insider:
No big surprise: Most of the bankers, politicians and regulators who got us into this mess went to a handful of elite universities and business schools.
These schools obviously helped frame their philosophies, while providing the networking opportunities needed to climb the highest rungs of the corporate and political ladders. It turns out, of course, that those ladders were planted in mud, rather than solid earth. Whoops.
Research Credit: Lagavulin
