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A big hole in the car park at SpaceX’s headquarters in Los Angeles is the first visible evidence of another
of Elon Musk’s ventures. Mr. Musk who, besides leading SpaceX, a rocket company, also 6 Tesla, a
maker of electric cars, is going into the tunneling business. The goal of the Boring Company, as he dubs his
new enterprise, is to 7 into tunnels faster and more cheaply than is possible at the moment. 8 the
pit in the car park, Mr. Musk says he has also begun a series of test tunnels for a project that will, if it comes
to 9 , carry cars under Los Angeles on high-speed sledges. In this way, people can 10 the dreadful
traffic jams above. More ambitiously, he claims to have official support for a 320 km (200-mile) tunnel that
would, in half an hour, whisk peopole between New York and Washington, DC, in magnetically propelled
capsules, using a technology he has dubbed the hyperloop.
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The clever fool syndrome would explain why one controversial study of Harvard Business School
students found that, after a flying start, the alumni (presumably among the ablest young men of their day)
gradually slipped back to the general level inside their chosen management 11 . A Harvard graduate has
no reason at all to suppose that he will manage more effectively than a less instructed contemporary. The
Harvard man can only claim that he is more highly educated; and high education and high achievement in
practical affairs don’t necessarily go together. John F Kennedy found that assembling America’s brightest
brains in Washington neither got bills 12 Congress nor avoided the Bay of Pigs; and many companies
have discovered that business school diplomas are a thin 13 against incompetence.
An overwhelmingly large proportion of the highest and best American executives did study business. All
this proves that an overwhelmingly large proportion of business-minded undergraduates got the real message,
which is that a diploma will be good for their careers, starting with starting salaries. It does not follow that the
education was of any other direct benefit either to the executive or his firm. 14 , of course, that the
schooling was wasted. As a general rule, the wise man recruits the finest intelligence he can find; and good
minds are far better for good training. The question is only whether academic training in subjects that seem to
have some connection with management 15 the best education for managing, and that is something that
nobody can prove either way.
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