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Nothing more entertaining than hearing business professors tout entrepreneurship when they've by and large spent their entire lives living and working in bureau
by seem_2211 8y ago
Nothing more entertaining than hearing business professors tout entrepreneurship when they've by and large spent their entire lives living and working in bureaucratic institutions. Business theory and business practice are a world apart. Look at these two authors for example, they wrote a good article, but they've both been business school professors for 7 and 10 years respectively.
That said, I had one lecturer who 'got it' and was the reason I studied communications as an undergraduate. I believe he wrote the second half of the course in the break between the semester halves (apparently lecturers are supposed to do that about 1 year in advance). I learnt more from him than almost every other business professor, mostly due to the fact he just didn't really care about the bureaucracy of the management school (I believe he had tenure). I asked him one day what he studied for his PhD and it turns out he studied 19th Century Scottish Poetry.
Maybe I shouldn't have been so surprised. The guy was a total liability from every box you can check. But that's why he was good.