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dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

“no trace” isn’t a necessary bar. You can learn business theory from a presentation including a 3 armed gargoyle without loss of information. Materials just need to be checked to be factual, which this seems to meet.

Mr Business Professor is probably one of the highest paid instructors in the college and hos time is NOT well spent cruising the internet for PowerPoint images or formatting lecture materials.

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GraniteM@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Write a brief introductory paragraph on the subject of business theory as if you were a three-armed gargoyle teaching a first year college class on the subject.

Greetings, fledgling scholars! I am Professor Thraxxor, your three-armed guide to the mystic labyrinth of business theory—where spreadsheets whisper secrets and invisible hands tug at the fabric of markets. With one hand I’ll gesture toward classical economics, with another I’ll sketch diagrams of organizational behavior, and with the third—ah yes—that one’s just for throwing chalk at nappers. In this course, we’ll examine the ancient and evolving forces that govern commerce, from Adam Smith’s hallowed halls to the chaos of modern corporate strategy. Stay alert—capitalism waits for no one.

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Alaik@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Somewhat unrelated but I’ve never understood why business professors make so much more than others. I get their logic of basing it off what they could be paid private side but business degrees tend to skew things due to how overpaid CEOs of larger corporations are.

I know at the university nearby the difference between someone with a phd in business admin versus genetics is… vast, to say the least.

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- sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  I get their logic of basing it off what they could be paid private side
  
  Then you get it. They pay what they need to in order to get the talent they need for the course. Business school is often more expensive than other disciplines because of the high salaries needed to attract talent and businesses schools get a lot of sponsors, so the school is being compensated for the high salaries.
  
  In short, it’s supply and demand. It’s a lot cheaper to find a PhD in genetics vs a PhD in business who is willing to work at a university.
  
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- dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I wish I knew the answer. I know one person who took that path and he is not a super bright guy and I’m not sure what value he brings… but business PhD and then teaching position in the 600k range. I did a rocket science PhD and finally took an industry job after like 6 years running a lab for less than 100k, but my advisor was around 180k with full faculty.
  
  400k was the salary of the university president, so… you add the rocket science faculty to the president and you get a faculty salary in the business school? It doesn’t make a lot of sense. I suppose maybe because MBA is a high demand degree? If you figure it out let me know, I’d also like to know the answer.
  
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MagicShel@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Sooner or later I’ll learn to caveat my AI comments to make clear I’m only talking about LLM/text-gen. I don’t personally care about image-gen. It’s garbage, but to quote Star Wars, sometimes “the garbage will do.”

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