[pjan]

"Why having an over-simplified title/line-of-thought gets you more clicks"

An MBA doesn't invalidate their previous experience. An MBA doesn't specialise a person or decreases his/her usefulness to only C-level positions (quite the opposite in my opinion, as they often acquire additional skills). An MBA doesn't make you a strategy guy/girl per se or makes you less an implementation person.

Apart from the social pressure one -might- experience because of their achieving peers (and maybe even the financial pressure to pay off their debt), I only believe it increases a person's skills (be it soft, finance, ...)

Eventually, it always boils down to peoples motivations to join X or Y. An MBA should at most encourage you (the recruiter/hiring person/... to ask some other questions during the hiring process.

Next in the series I expect:

"Why having worked for McK/BCG/Bain is a negative hiring signal (for startups)"

"Why having investment banking experience is a negative hiring signal (for startups)"

"Why having studied law is a negative hiring signal (for startups)" ...

[argonaut]

Well, in fact, the answer to your first question seems to be yes, according to a lot of people with more credibility than you or me.

http://www.quora.com/Management-Consulting-and-Management-Co...

[pjan]

Same thing here: it's used as a negative hiring signal by some, but that doesn't validate their thinking. These generalisations are a huge risk for loosing out on potential talent...