On 6/27/06, William Chops Westfield <westfw@mac.com> wrote:
>
> On Jun 26, 2006, at 1:05 AM, John Chung wrote:
> >
> > But no PHD in business management can run
> > multinational company.

Actually this is not true.

http://www.siemens.com/index.jsp?sdc_p=ft4mls4uo1042401i1030112pcz3&sdc_bcpath=1327885.s_0,:1030112.s_4,&sdc_sid=16802762616&

Klaus Kleinfeld, Dr. rer. pol., Dipl.-Kfm.
President and Chief Executive Officer of Siemens AG

He earned a Master's degree in Business Administration/Economics from
the University of Goettingen (Germany) in 1982, followed by a Ph.D. in
Strategic Management from the University of Wuerzburg (Germany) in
1992.


> Heh.  Cisco's first CEO (the one you've never heard of) had
> a PhD in Physics.  When we got venture funding, one of the
> first things the VCs did was to fire him, since "Physicist"
> were NOT the sort of image they wanted "company about to go
> public" to project.
>

That is a bit odd. There are many CEOs with Engineering
degree and start as an engineer. A physicist can be a good engineer.

Regards,
Xiaofan
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