<p>Everything has a learning curve, business included. Engineers think that because they tackled some of the hardest topics that they are qualified to jump right into the saddle of running a business, this ain’t true. Many of those guys on your list are entrepreneurs more so than businessmen. They are also quite removed from engineering in the real meaning of the word.</p>
<p>MBA is just another set of tools/theories that really aren’t understand until applied. Similar is the teaching of engineering; worthless until applied.</p>