Masters class

Last night our learning team had dinner with a new professor who will be teaching first year students in the second semester. He came from the banking world and joined academia relatively late, so he's not from a typical background. HBS uses practitioners, often very senior people from the business world, to teach a few of the entry-level classes. To get this kind of interaction (and these are case discussions, not lectures, so there is real back-and-forth on a daily basis) with them during their normal working lives would have been pretty unusual, but it's interesting that they choose to teach when they could truly be doing anything they wanted, or nothing at all.