Drinking from the Firehose | Alex Taussig, Lightspeed | Substack
In the end, the free market will decide. Over the next year or two, as we wait to for a vaccine, business schools will be forced to prove their worth as more than just location-bound incubators for building social capital. Unlike the cautiously optimistic class of students ready to embark on their MBA journey, McDonald believes this could be the be... See more
Ikya Kandula • fastcompany.com
“You Can’t Speak in Strong Enough Dystopian Words to Describe It”: Why the Coronavirus Pandemic Could Change Dining as We Know It, Forever
Vanity Fairvanityfair.com
However they pay for it, future students could find other drastic changes in the way their educations are delivered.
Jon Marcus • How Technology Is Changing the Future of Higher Education (Published 2020)
The thing that makes tail events easy to underappreciate is how easy it is to underestimate how things compound. How, for example, 9/11 prompted the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates, which helped drive the housing bubble, which led to the financial crisis, which led to a poor jobs market, which led tens of millions to seek a college education,
... See moreMorgan Housel • The Psychology of Money: Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness
The cost of the universities is stunning and can’t be sustained.