The poetic justice of this decision is fabulous. In the end, nobody wants to be affiliated with a douche bag -- regardless of how smart and/or productive they are. It actually gives me a little bit more faith in our profession.Want to bet? He’ll end up just fine after this. Guaranteed.
Yeah, I get that it's a soft landing for those that fail tenure at HRMs. He'll definitely get a job somewhere pretty good, but it won't be HBS and he doesn't have anyone to blame for that other than himself.
The poetic justice of this decision is fabulous. In the end, nobody wants to be affiliated with a douche bag -- regardless of how smart and/or productive they are. It actually gives me a little bit more faith in our profession.Want to bet? He’ll end up just fine after this. Guaranteed.
Yeah, I get that it's a soft landing for those that fail tenure at HRMs. He'll definitely get a job somewhere pretty good, but it won't be HBS and he doesn't have anyone to blame for that other than himself.
Let me put it this way. Getting denied tenure at Harvard Busoness School with three top 5s and a ton of other stuff, plus his $800/hr consulting fees, is basically a better life than 99% of the population. He’ll be laughing all the way to the bank.
The poetic justice of this decision is fabulous. In the end, nobody wants to be affiliated with a douche bag -- regardless of how smart and/or productive they are. It actually gives me a little bit more faith in our profession.
Want to bet? He’ll end up just fine after this. Guaranteed.
Yeah, I get that it's a soft landing for those that fail tenure at HRMs. He'll definitely get a job somewhere pretty good, but it won't be HBS and he doesn't have anyone to blame for that other than himself.
Let me put it this way. Getting denied tenure at Harvard Busoness School with three top 5s and a ton of other stuff, plus his $800/hr consulting fees, is basically a better life than 99% of the population. He’ll be laughing all the way to the bank.
maybe an evil laugh? because a dude who threatens to sue a small humble restaurant over four dollars while earning "$800/hr consulting fees" must not have much joy in his life
Baker got tenure only because his grandfather had been HBS dean. He virtually no pubs then. They even gave him an extra year on the clock. That is how HBS really works.Huh? When he went up for tenure in 1996, Baker had 3 QJEs, an AER, a JPE, two JFs, a JFE and several good field journal pubs. Are you insane?
He went up before most of those came out, & was given extra time.
He has a public CV you dope. Everyone can see you are lying. All those pubs were pre-1996. Within a few years of his PhD he already had two top finance pubs and a JPE. Why are you lying?
I'm sick of this identity politics stuff. This is pure millenial pc bulls**t stuff. wha wha wha, the guy was an asshole to a chinese restaurant owner. wha wha wha let's destroy his career.
You know what I noticed about ejmr? Yall a bunch of hypocrites. You make fun of whiny liberals on twitter and all, but you're no better. you're just a different breed of s***j**w. You're like the anti-elitist middle white male ULRMs getting an orgasm at the idea that some "ben elderman" type is getting trashed.
I'm sick of this identity politics stuff. This is pure millenial pc bulls**t stuff. wha wha wha, the guy was an asshole to a chinese restaurant owner. wha wha wha let's destroy his career.
You know what I noticed about ejmr? Yall a bunch of hypocrites. You make fun of whiny liberals on twitter and all, but you're no better. you're just a different breed of s***j**w. You're like the anti-elitist middle white male ULRMs getting an orgasm at the idea that some "ben elderman" type is getting trashed.
lolz wut? take your ritalin bro...
Hi Ben. Calm down. Industry is waiting for you.
I'm sick of this identity politics stuff. This is pure millenial pc bulls**t stuff. wha wha wha, the guy was an asshole to a chinese restaurant owner. wha wha wha let's destroy his career.
You know what I noticed about ejmr? Yall a bunch of hypocrites. You make fun of whiny liberals on twitter and all, but you're no better. you're just a different breed of s***j**w. You're like the anti-elitist middle white male ULRMs getting an orgasm at the idea that some "ben elderman" type is getting trashed.
I'm sick of this identity politics stuff. This is pure millenial pc bulls**t stuff. wha wha wha, the guy was an asshole to a chinese restaurant owner. wha wha wha let's destroy his career.
You know what I noticed about ejmr? Yall a bunch of hypocrites. You make fun of whiny liberals on twitter and all, but you're no better. you're just a different breed of s***j**w. You're like the anti-elitist middle white male ULRMs getting an orgasm at the idea that some "ben elderman" type is getting trashed.
Redditards please continue to post here
lolz wat, I'm braindead from twittering all day.
I'm sick of this identity politics stuff. This is pure millenial pc bulls**t stuff. wha wha wha, the guy was an asshole to a chinese restaurant owner. wha wha wha let's destroy his career.
You know what I noticed about ejmr? Yall a bunch of hypocrites. You make fun of whiny liberals on twitter and all, but you're no better. you're just a different breed of s***j**w. You're like the anti-elitist middle white male ULRMs getting an orgasm at the idea that some "ben elderman" type is getting trashed.lolz wut? take your ritalin bro...
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.
Ben Edelman, if this is who you truly are, then I salute you.
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.
Ben is famous more for his ad auctions work.
But his real contribution to society (including every one of us) is the fight for consumers. Daily Ben is working to protect everyone of us from companies like Google, Microsoft etc (truly an internet ethics cop). Yes he takes his job seriously and the issue was the Chinese shop was part of his agenda. that was probably a strategic mistake, but mostly because he is an HBS professor.
If anything, we all should all be thankful for work that Ben is doing (just check carefully his war for ethical behavior of big companies!). It is shameful that HBS, would got scared from the big companies and too irritated by one flop and couldn't see why Ben is so important.
Every business school should have people like Ben, especially at these times. Real shame for HBS.
And no, I'm not Ben. Just someone who first liked his academic work a lot, and then got to admire his war for protecting internet users.
Ben is famous more for his ad auctions work.
But his real contribution to society (including every one of us) is the fight for consumers. Daily Ben is working to protect everyone of us from companies like Google, Microsoft etc (truly an internet ethics cop). Yes he takes his job seriously and the issue was the Chinese shop was part of his agenda. that was probably a strategic mistake, but mostly because he is an HBS professor.
If anything, we all should all be thankful for work that Ben is doing (just check carefully his war for ethical behavior of big companies!). It is shameful that HBS, would got scared from the big companies and too irritated by one flop and couldn't see why Ben is so important.
Every business school should have people like Ben, especially at these times. Real shame for HBS.
And no, I'm not Ben. Just someone who first liked his academic work a lot, and then got to admire his war for protecting internet users.
No one believes you're not Ben.
I believe it. The probability that someone guessed correctly of an identity on this site is zero. How many times someone has guessed incorrectly when I’ve said something is dozens.Ben is famous more for his ad auctions work.
But his real contribution to society (including every one of us) is the fight for consumers. Daily Ben is working to protect everyone of us from companies like Google, Microsoft etc (truly an internet ethics cop). Yes he takes his job seriously and the issue was the Chinese shop was part of his agenda. that was probably a strategic mistake, but mostly because he is an HBS professor.
If anything, we all should all be thankful for work that Ben is doing (just check carefully his war for ethical behavior of big companies!). It is shameful that HBS, would got scared from the big companies and too irritated by one flop and couldn't see why Ben is so important.
Every business school should have people like Ben, especially at these times. Real shame for HBS.
And no, I'm not Ben. Just someone who first liked his academic work a lot, and then got to admire his war for protecting internet users.No one believes you're not Ben.