{"id":3449,"date":"2013-12-27T17:00:05","date_gmt":"2013-12-28T01:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/?p=3449"},"modified":"2013-12-27T17:00:05","modified_gmt":"2013-12-28T01:00:05","slug":"zillow-ceo-it-s-ok-to-skip-business-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/3449\/zillow-ceo-it-s-ok-to-skip-business-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Zillow CEO: It   s OK to Skip Business School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href='http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&#038;aid=&#038;tid=9574876f378f4ac9845ccfe1bbc342ce&#038;url=http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/atwork\/2013\/12\/25\/zillow-ceo-its-ok-to-skip-business-school\/&#038;c=3sHudqznUumhsFMyvtzVkZU6P5yOO-k0O4fosIylBzo&#038;mkt=en-us'>Zillow CEO: It   s OK to Skip Business School<\/a><br \/>Is an M.B.A. essential for getting ahead? Spencer Rascoff, a Goldman Sachs alumnus who is now CEO of real-estate website Zillow Inc., passed on getting his M.B.A. While the business degree is often viewed as a must-have for executives, Mr  <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href='http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&#038;aid=&#038;tid=9574876f378f4ac9845ccfe1bbc342ce&#038;url=http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/cio\/2013\/12\/23\/mind-the-gap-between-business-and-it\/&#038;c=hufGaJm8yPlgFMaRZdMKB9wOILSJq3B7jdivw4tgc20&#038;mkt=en-us'>Mind the Gap Between Business and IT<\/a><br \/>Business and IT are increasingly out of sync, as falling barriers to technology acquisition enable business units to get what they need on their own. Legacy systems can   t operate at the warp speeds that businesses need in the digital economy.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href='http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&#038;aid=&#038;tid=9574876f378f4ac9845ccfe1bbc342ce&#038;url=http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/business-highlights\/2013\/12\/26\/0d66bbfc-6e7b-11e3-a5d0-6f31cd74f760_story.html&#038;c=hara-IE78O2i37wHO25YtDuyyg5sMIk1ssSwQCIZkJ8&#038;mkt=en-us'>Business Highlights<\/a><br \/>Twelve books coming out in the new year look like promising reads for leaders. Americans waited until the last minute to buy holiday gifts, but retailers weren   t prepared for the spike. Heavy spending in the final days of the mostly lackluster  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zillow CEO: It s OK to Skip Business SchoolIs an M.B.A. essential for getting ahead? Spencer Rascoff, a Goldman Sachs alumnus who is now CEO of real-estate website Zillow Inc., passed on getting his M.B.A. While the business degree is often viewed as a must-have for executives, Mr Mind the Gap Between Business and ITBusiness &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/3449\/zillow-ceo-it-s-ok-to-skip-business-school\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Zillow CEO: It   s OK to Skip Business School<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3450,"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3449\/revisions\/3450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}