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by smcin 308 days ago
I still don't understand why San Diego-Tijuana isn't in principle as strong in design+manufacturing as the Hong Kong-Shenzhen axis. (What needs to happen in order to make that so?)

> Even the "MBAs" they hire in LDPs are required to have technical undergrad degrees before joining an MBA.

It frightens me the quotes you put around "MBAs" like that, those are the best type of MBAs. In general the cadre of people who go directly or an MBA with zero industrial exposure have very different aims than the ones that do (also their funding sources are very different).

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> I still don't understand why San Diego-Tijuana isn't in principle as strong in design+manufacturing as the Hong Kong-Shenzhen axis

It is in Medical Devices and Defense Tech.

The San Diego and Tijuana EDCs are closely integrated and use a single-window system so that you as a company doing R&D in SD and prototyping and manufacturing in Tijuana are dealing with a single entity.

> It frightens me the quotes you put around "MBAs" like that

Because on HN, people use "MBA" to designate CorpDev, FP&A, CorpStrat, GM, and other management and revenue ownership roles.

> those are the best type of MBAs

I agree, and employers agree as well.

There's a reason alumni from Wharton SF, Haas PTMBA, Stanford HCP MS&E, MIT's Sloan+LGO Fellowship, CMU Tepper's PTMBA, UW Foster's EMBA, UT McCombs' Hildebrand MBA, and UCLA Anderson's FlexMBA are overrepresented in engineering industries.

Employers tend to sponsor high leadership potential employees to attend these programs in return for them climbing the ladder internally.

An entire generation of Cybersecurity and Enterprise SaaS CPOs and CEOs are products of this initiative at Cisco and PANW back in the 2000s