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Are business schools intellectually bankrupt? (Part Two)

Nicholas Polson, a professor of Finance at Booth (Chicago’s business school) in the news for authoring 258 papers in 2026. It turns out that I had an interesting interaction with Polson in this past which I never blogged about. Instead, … Continue reading →

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Public Displays of Mathematics

Let me start by saying that I’m in favor of making the effort to both educate the public about mathematics (as well as science more generally) and to convey to them a sense of the excitement of our discipline. But … Continue reading →

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Are business schools intellectually bankrupt?

From the New York Times today, a report from business school professors concerning a study which claims to show that professors are prejudiced, too. I remember reading the original paper on this study, which made it painfully clear that the … Continue reading →

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