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What is happening to Berkeley Haas?
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Berkeley Haas is one of the stronger applied econ groups these days -- no idea what is going on in other departments (i.e finance, accounting, marketing), but the econ groups there are quite strong relative to other business schools (or econ departments for that matter).
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Empiricist here: it is troubling to see them kick out good theorists. But what makes it worse for them is that they do not seem to have good taste for empiricists either. So it looks like a case where they will end up neither here nor there. Sad to see a department with Leland go down this route.