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European executives used to be somewhat awestruck by the American "professional manager," and they considered it prestigious to hire someone who had earned the mysterious letters M.B.A. Comparable programs, with some courses taught by Americans, were started at the universities of London and Manchester, at Milan and at the European Institute of Business
...Administration outside Paris. But the awe is fading. Says Bernard Courtaud, head of an executive recruiting firm in Paris: "French companies that wanted to hire many American- trained M.B.A.s were often disappointed because the M.B.A.s turned out to be very expensive and after a few years, they generally left...
...been taught for 20 years? That is, of course, the question. Hindsight clarifies all dilemmas, and there are some who wonder whether the essentials of management, particularly the quintessential mystery of dealing with people, can be taught at all. "If I could choose one degree for the people I hire, it would be English," says a senior vice president of the First Atlanta Corp. "I want people who can read and speak in the language we're dealing with...
...young newcomers. "M.B.A.s may want too much too soon, but employers in the courtship process contribute to that," says Edmund Littlefield, retired chairman of Utah International Inc., a large mining and land development company. He devised an ingenious use for them. Says he: "I was very careful not to hire more M.B.A.s than I could give an interesting career path to. Our deal was that they would come in as my administrative assistant for two years. They had no authority, but an excellent view of how this company worked. And they liked that. I'll tell...
...plot concerns the "Johnson County Wars." In the late 19th century, rich cattle barons hire an army of well-trained assassins to rid the Wyoming territory of poor immigrants who steal their cattle in order to survive. Cimino wanted to make a bold statement about the injustice of the American aristocracy, he wanted to show the corruption of the Frontier Spirit. Not a bad idea. And crawling through Heaven's Gate's quagmire of chaotic, irrelevant scenes, unexplained connections between events, unclear alliances between people, and awful dialogue, you can find traces of that original idea...