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Martin: Modern US capital markets harm American competitiveness
“I think in 2020, now America has got a capital market that is a detriment to American competitiveness because it is causing companies to behave in ways that aren't good for the company, its employees, America over overall.”
Roger Martin: Business dramatically and vastly overuses the scientific method
“We dramatically, vastly overuse science.”
Roger Martin: Education System Prioritizes Knowledge Dumping Over Teaching Thinking
“I mean, I think the education System, you know, has got a fundamental assumption that the job is to, you know, unzip the top of your head and pour knowledge in rather than to teach you how to think.”
Roger Martin: Business schools fail to teach cross-domain problem solving
“Business schools do not teach the fundamental problems of business. I mean, that's pretty bad, right? What they teach are finance. What they teach is marketing to teach us HR. And as the great, greatest management thinker of all time, Peter Drucker said, there…”
Martin: Business school success stories would have succeeded without it
“I think business education draws in Lots of people who would have succeeded without it. They're the ones, that small percentage of people who can integrate, who just learned early on in their life, one way or another, long before they got to business school, h…”
Roger Martin: Partial equilibrium economists outnumber general equilibrium thinkers a thousand to one
“There are a thousand partial equilibrium economists for every single general equilibrium economist. And so we have economists who kind of know everything about, you know, whatever fiscal policy, but nothing about labor policy or labor economics or environmenta…”