For Epic Systems CEO Judy Faulkner, whose software powers many of the U.S.’s top hospitals, the answer is simple: a graduate business degree may have done more harm than good.
“They would have taught me, ‘Here’s how you do venture capital.’ We didn’t do it. ‘Here’s how you go public.’ We didn’t do it. ‘Here’s how you do budgets.’ We don’t have budgets. We say, if you need it, buy it. If you don’t need it, don’t buy it.”
