What they study at B-School?

Well, quite a lot. For instance, how people who can not even spell Six-Sigma, were one of the earliest to attain Six-Sigma rating without a single manager, while organizations run by thousands of managers struggle in vain, to claim such fancy tags Mumbai's Dabbawalas - An Entrepreneurial Success Story
or how people like Michael Dell, who did not even complete their undergrads, let alone business management, succeed by breaking every rule in any B-School book and eventually enter B-School books as case studies. ("He began his business tinkering with machines in his University of Texas dorm room, and a mere eight years later cracked the FORTUNE 500, making him, at 27, the youngest FORTUNE 500 CEO ever. Doubters said his company would never challenge the big boys, that his model wouldn't work overseas, that he couldn't sell servers and he has proved them wrong every time.")

I read a long time back that one Mumbai Dabbawala was invited to one IIM to lecture the aspiring managers. I don't know what he lectured on though... Was it on Six-Sigma? or was it on Common-Sense? or was it on KISS?

America's Most Admired Company

Dell was voted the most admired company in the United States according to a poll released Monday by Time, Inc.'s Fortune magazine, supplanting Wal-Mart in the first spot and pushing IBM off the top 10 list.

Dell tops Fortune's 'Most Admired Companies' list

Now Dell is the first PC maker to hold the rank of America's Most Admired—since the original "PC" maker, IBM, logged off in 1986.

America's Most Admired Companies - Most Admired Companies: Dude! Dell's No. 1!

"If the idea of maturity is unsettling to Dell, it could be because he himself just hit the big four-oh. But there has to be consolation in what he has accomplished in his time. His company has run through the competition like some kind of sports team from Boston. Let's quickly review the recent meta events of the PC industry: IBM, the company that practically invented the desktop computer, has exited the business by selling out to the Chinese firm Lenovo. Gateway has seen its business crash—its stock, which traded above $80 five years ago, now fetches $4 and change.

Compaq wisely sold out to Hewlett-Packard, which unwisely doubled down in this market, giving Dell—as one wag puts it—"a bigger butt to kick." And of course it was HP's bet on Compaq that ultimately cost Carly Fiorina her job (see "How the HP Board KO'd Carly"). Truly, this is an industry under assault, and in every instance the guy at the other end of the gun is Michael Dell. "You have to just say he has done a hell of a job," says former GE CEO Jack Welch."

The Art of Programming

'A computer is like a violin. You can imagine a novice trying first a phonograph and then a violin. The latter, he says, sounds terrible. That is the argument we have heard from our humanists and most of our computer scientists. Computer programs are good, they say, for particular purposes, but they aren't flexible. Neither is a violin, or a typewriter, until you learn how to use it.'

- Marvin Minsky, 'Why Programming Is a Good Medium for Expressing Poorly-Understood and Sloppily-Formulated Ideas'