Darren O'Neill: MBA CEOs are more likely to use management consulting firms. He says it may be because they have friends who work for the same firm, and often trained at MBA programs. But he argues that their power is embedded in norms of society; if these aren't permissive, you can't do this sort of thing. O'Neil: It's imprudent to take a very strong social engineering perspective on business leaders.
New research finds that bosses who went to business school pay their workers less. So what are M.B.A. programs teaching — and should they stop?