👌 Academic and small business owner here. This couldn't be more on point.
Academics lack key business skills which I argue are required even within #academia but are never taught with systemic management dysfunction as a result.
A tenured professor in liberal arts enrolled in our MBA program (just graduated!). She took our “launch your business” course with other student entrepreneurs. It was really cool and would love to see others around campus study business topics, esp. accounting, finance, OB, OD, etc.
@academicchatter@koen_hufkens since I graduated from SFU last year and this is the first time I’m hearing about the program, maybe they need to do a better job of getting the word out. It’s not going to help people who don’t have access to it for a variety of reasons.
@DrSuzanne@academicchatter Some of this is also prone to gate keeping. I wanted to join some of the start-up tech groups at Harvard, but I didn't have access to them as a post-doc (only for students). So try as you may...
@DrSuzanne@academicchatter@koen_hufkens
As a faculty member in physics at SFU, the program is so focused on research that has immediate commercial application that it’s not much use to my students.
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