> unless you want to say that engineer CEOs are intrinsically better/not suscept...

happytiger · 2024-01-24T12:54:46 1706100886

With evidence. Of the top performing companies in 2018:

> 32 have an MBA, up from 29 last year. 34 have an engineering degree, up from 32 last year.

It has shifted further in this direction since, especially with 2020.

https://hbr.org/2018/11/the-best-performing-ceos-in-the-worl...

Edit: the point has been made. Please do some of your own research rather than constantly sea lioning.

https://www.quora.com/What-is-it-called-when-someone-keeps-a...

RandomLensman · 2024-01-24T13:03:29 1706101409

How many have law degrees? The majority of CEOs in the top 100 were not engineers it seems. And performance is stock performance/TSR, if I understand correctly.

Edit: How is it sea lioning if your link is not establishing what you claim? An intrinsic link between being an engineer and being a high performance CEO would, for example, be that proportionate more engineers than MBAs, etc. are good CEOs.

RandomLensman · 2024-01-24T12:26:31 1706099191

Then show the evidence. This feels like a testable hypothesis.

brigadier132 · 2024-01-24T12:43:35 1706100215

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/10/22/more-top-...

RandomLensman · 2024-01-24T12:57:50 1706101070

That just compares MBAs and engineers (not sure what happens if someone has both), not the many other non-engineer educations CEOs can have (law, mathematics, physics, ...). MBA is quite US centric.

Also, performance measures play a role.

I found this, for example, which says there is no relationship: https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2011/06/18/does-ceo-educatio...