Good that he left. The fewer weirdos we have in econ academia, the better. I hope the same thing happens to the Yale "Japanese su/icide" weirdo.
Ben Edelman denied tenure -- HBS NOM is officially a dumpster fire
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Good that he left. The fewer weirdos we have in econ academia, the better. I hope the same thing happens to the Yale "Japanese su/icide" weirdo.
Good that he left. The fewer weirdos we have in econ academia, the better. I hope the same thing happens to the Yale "Japanese su/icide" weirdo.
This profession is so full of as/pies. It's ridiculous.
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5 years is a long time to be hung up over tenure denial when everyone else saw it coming. If he had sued Harvard immediately back in 2017, we would understand. But now it just seems like he's sour grapes who's never let go of a slight against him from years back.
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If you actually looked at the article, he said he's doing it before MA statute of limitations is up. Seems totally reasonable to not jump into something right away and appear rash, and instead file a complaint with the benefit of some time having passed and a rational approach taken. The complaint feels like it was written angrily 5 years ago but has been mostly toned down (though not everywhere).
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Good that he left. The fewer weirdos we have in econ academia, the better. I hope the same thing happens to the Yale "Japanese su/icide" weirdo.
Don't discriminate against weirdos, the weirdos are the ones that make the field diverse, enjoyable and daring to think outside the box.
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It seems like he just can't accept that he failed. This guy looks like he never even tripped on a wrinkle in a rug in his whole life, before HBS pulled it out from under him. But his CV looks very much like the (very good, but not good enough) CVs of plenty of other people who don't get tenure at Harvard, bad media or no, especially if he's not great at teaching. It doesn't seem like it'll be hard for them to say that he just failed to meet their standards.
At this point, it seems it's his own grudge that's holding him back more than anything else. If he'd moved on, he might've had tenure at another top university by now, but it looks like he just stopped publishing since 2017. This case is going to be absolutely humiliating, too, since they'll now produce all the evidence, publicly, about all the awful things everyone said about him, and who specifically hated him all along and asked that he be fired.
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Good that he left. The fewer weirdos we have in econ academia, the better. I hope the same thing happens to the Yale "Japanese su/icide" weirdo.
Don't discriminate against weirdos, the weirdos are the ones that make the field diverse, enjoyable and daring to think outside the box.
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I can't believe I'm about to defend Ben Edelman (I've got as much reason to dislike the guy as anyone), but I feel that most of the posters here don't know or understand him.
First, the Chinese restaurant was not a mom and pop store. Ran Duan has been on the cover of GQ for gods sake. Everyone loves a story about a Harvard douchebag trampling over the little guy, so that is the way the media took the story.
Second, the fact that it's stupid to sue over $4 is exactly why he did it, and exactly why triple damages exist. If a company can make the stakes small enough, they can fleece thousands of people without any individual having an incentive to take action. This fits with his modus operandi - not as a douchebag but as the person that takes on the individual responsibility to take down the big guy.This x1000. He was 100% right, at least in the Chinese restaurant case. The "little guy" was in fact much more savvy and wrecked him in the media. He's had a long time commitment to consumer protection and I've always thought he was treated unfairly in this case.
Maybe he's a douchebag otherwise, dunno, only met him once. But I hope this incident didn't figure into the decision.