re: #82 Romantic Heretic
re: #78 Decatur Deb
The best book I ever read on how to run a business made it clear you do not hire MBAs for anything. the author specified Harvard MBAs but that was when they were about only MBAs around then.
Defense got him from the Ford Motor Company, where I think he was responsible for the Pinto. Then he did as well for us.