NYU Professor Gloriously Tells MBA Student She's an Idiot, Whiners Cry About Meanness

[Glassmage]

Business majors are useless anyway...

 

[warpus]

The University I work at has the most prestigious business school in Canada on campus.. Only douchebags are accepted there, but the degrees they get are highly respected. They all get good jobs or something.

 

[downtown]

I think it is reasonable to expect a different standard of professionalism or decor from students in a professional degree program than your typical undergraduate lecture hall. The folks at NYU's MBA program are not 19. These are adults, almost all of which have previous professional working experience. I think a professor at a law school or medical school would certainly not be itn the wrong for not allowing somebody waltz in an hour late, and a high end MBA program should expect a similar level of decor.

 

[Formaldehyde]

I think the word you are searching for is decorum.

I don't think it was appropriate that the professor emailed this matter to all his students, especially since it was inevitable that the name of the person would be known to many of them from witnessing the incident.

It also turns out that Galloway has quite the reputation:

Potential NYT Director Scott Galloway a “Muffkateer”?

Scott Galloway, the Firebrand Partners founder currently trying to leverage his 4.9 percent stake in the New York Times into a seat on the company’s board of directors, isn’t all business. We hear that Galloway, who also teaches classes at NYU’s Stern School of Business, is a member of Carbon NYC, a $4,800-a-year, invite-only “virtual club” for Big Swinging Dicks founded in 2004. Carbon’s 250-odd members enjoy such perks as sponsored cocktail parties, Texas Hold ‘Em tournaments, and jaunts to the Hamptons to watch polo; they even get a discounted $99 helicopter shuttle service between Wall Street and Kennedy Airport. (Does anyone use car service these days?)

We also hear that Galloway—who made his fortune in the ’90s by founding and flipping gift-site Red Envelope—flew a Carbon flag outside his Watermill, Long Island, estate. According to a guest, an upstairs wall featured a shrine to his glory days as a UCLA frat boy (he graduated in ’87). Among the more notable captions on the series of framed photos of Galloway partying with his ZBT bros: “The Muffkateers,” “The Snatch-Bucklers,” “The Vagilantes,” and “The Trim Reapers.”

Vagilante Shareholder Scott Galloway and His Band of Muffkateers to Maraud the ‘Times’

Scott Galloway started out slow with the Times. "There is nothing wrong with the New York Times Company that cannot be fixed with what is right with the New York Times," the former frat boy and current NYU professor wrote in early February, when his investor group, made up of his Firebrand Partners and Atlanta hedge fund Harbinger Capital, revealed that they had acquired a 4.9 percent stake in the company. Two weeks later, they doubled their investment to nearly 10 percent, met with Arthur Sulzberger Jr., and nominated Galloway and three others for seats on the board. But when the current board recommended shareholders not vote for the nominees put forth by Galloway and his band of Muffkateers, well, that must have pissed them right off. According to The Wall Street Journal, SEC filings today will reveal that Galloway's group has raised their stake in the Times again, and that their latest purchase will bring them "closer to matching the number of publicly traded shares owned by the Sulzberger family." Watch your back, Arthur. The Trim Reaper is coming, and he is coming for ye.

Vagilante Scott Galloway Crashes Onto ‘Times’ Board

Holy moly! We thought it would never happen. Arthur Sulzberger Jr. has loosened his viselike grip on the Times and agreed to give Scott Galloway a seat on the board. In case you missed it, Galloway (shown in a picture we can not get enough of) is a former ZBT frat boy who reportedly refers to himself a "vagilante," and the founder of Firebrand partners, a hedge fund that, along with Harbinger Partners, recently amassed a 12 percent stake in the Times. The two groups were leveraging said stake to get four seats on the Times board; however, Sulzberger gave them only two. Still, the Times itself points out, this is the first time the family given seats to people nominated by outsiders since 1967, so it's nothing to sneeze at. Galloway will occupy one of the two seats; the other will be occupied by James Kohlberg, the chairman of Kohlberg & Company, who was also nominated by Firebrand/Harbinger. Harbinger's Philip Falcone, who recently bought Bob Guccione's mansion, was not invited. The hedge funds have said that their aim is to get the Times to sell off some of its smaller assets (shares in the Boston Red Sox, the Boston Globe and smaller newspapers, and buildings like maybe even their headquarters) and focus more on digital media. Presumably, they also think they should drop the bridge column, but we're just guessing.

Investor to Step Down From Times Co. Board

In 2008, the company accepted the nomination of two directors named by the investment group, led by Harbinger Capital Partners, to avoid a proxy fight. The two, Scott Galloway, seen as the strategist of the bid to shake up the company, and James A. Kohlberg, were the first Times Company directors ever nominated by people outside the company.

Mr. Galloway will not seek re-election by shareholders in April, and the board will shrink to 13 people from 14, the company said. Mr. Kohlberg will seek re-election. Mr. Galloway declined to comment.

Another director, Daniel H. Cohen, is also stepping down. Mr. Cohen, a member of the family that controls the company through a special class of stock, is a first cousin of Arthur Sulzberger Jr., the company chairman.

To replace Mr. Cohen, the company nominated another family member, Carolyn D. Greenspon, 41, who would be the first member of the generation after Mr. Sulzberger and Mr. Cohen to serve on the board. She is a great-great-granddaughter of Adolph S. Ochs, the patriarch who bought The Times newspaper in 1896.

In late 2007 and early 2008, the Harbinger group bought about 28.5 million shares of the company’s Class A stock, almost 20 percent of the total, saying that the company should sell off pieces and be more aggressive about making Internet acquisitions.

But the move coincided with an advertising slump that battered the stock price. From September through December of last year, the group sold more than 10.15 million shares, at an average price of about $8.46 a share, less than half what it had paid.

The stock closed Friday at $11.02 a share.

 

[downtown]

What does his bid to change the NYT have to do with anything?

 

[Formaldehyde]

I think his notoriety in the business world, as well as his frat boy hi-jinks, show a distinct lack of "decorum" quite well. He doesn't even have a PhD, even though I guess you could argue that it isn't really necessary in a major like marketing.

If all else fails, he can show up to classes in a plaid toga brandishing a sword.

All in all, I think he has done a remarkable job "branding" himself...

 

[MagisterCultuum]

That is definitely not a toga.

 

[Formaldehyde]

You really should watch Animal House.

 

[Cutlass]

I think the prof actually went above and beyond the call in responding so constructively.

 

[shadowplay]

I think the prof actually went above and beyond the call in responding so constructively.

This was my reaction as well. People are being way too sensitive.

 

[MagisterCultuum]

You really should watch Animal House.

It bears some resemblance to what one of the girls is wearing, but not to the rest. (In ancient Rome a woman would only wear a toga if she were trying to advertize her services as a prostitute. The Stola was the proper feminine garb.) Nothing worn there is much like a genuine toga anyway, which must be a much longer trapezoidal or ovoid cloth in order to be properly wrapped. A Toga did not need to be tied or pinned in order to stay in place even during activities such as horseback riding. What most people think of as togas are more like the Greek Himation.


Given that the cloth's pattern plus the fact that guy has his face painted blue and is carrying a claymore, I am pretty sure that his garment is supposed to be a Great Kilt.

 

[Zelig]

I think it is reasonable to expect a different standard of professionalism or decor from students in a professional degree program than your typical undergraduate lecture hall.

Nope, once you're 18 you're an adult, and I have the same high standards for you regardless of whether you're 18 or 102.

 

[Formaldehyde]

It bears some resemblance to what one of the girls is wearing, but not to the rest. (In ancient Rome a woman would only wear a toga if she were trying to advertize her services as a prostitute. The Stola was the proper feminine garb.) Nothing worn there is much like a genuine toga anyway, which must be a much longer trapezoidal or ovoid cloth in order to be properly wrapped. A Toga did not need to be tied or pinned in order to stay in place even during activities such as horseback riding. What most people think of as togas are more like the Greek Himation.


Given that the cloth's pattern plus the fact that guy has his face painted blue and is carrying a claymore, I am pretty sure that his garment is supposed to be a Great Kilt.

To me, it looks just like a bedsheet fashioned into a garment for a college prank ala Animal House. YMMV.

 

[ace99]

I think the word you are searching for is decorum.

I don't think it was appropriate that the professor emailed this matter to all his students, especially since it was inevitable that the name of the person would be known to many of them from witnessing the incident.

It also turns out that Galloway has quite the reputation:

Potential NYT Director Scott Galloway a “Muffkateer”?



Vagilante Shareholder Scott Galloway and His Band of Muffkateers to Maraud the ‘Times’

Vagilante Scott Galloway Crashes Onto ‘Times’ Board

Investor to Step Down From Times Co. Board

Girlfriend saw this and wants to know if he's single. FML.

 

[Archbob]

its an MBA class. What happens if your an hour late for work each day or for a meeting? You get fired.

 

[ywhtptgtfo]

its an MBA class. What happens if your an hour late for work each day or for a meeting? You get fired.

It's different.

1. Work and meetings are very important because your absence can affect others with a much greater impact than the fact that you miss out on 1 hour of lecture materials which are presented for your own good.

2. You get paid to go to work and you pay to go to classes.

I actually buy the girl's story that she's sampling for different classes to take, which is something I don't do but still respect.

 

[Birdjaguar]

His costume is from Braveheart.

 

[Formaldehyde]

I'd buy a Braveheart toga party:

 

[Mise]

The email the professor sent was too snarky to actually be praiseworthy. Copying it to the rest of his class for a public shaming was pathetic and this makes him an awful human being.

She shouldn't have come in 1 hr late obviously, but the mature, proportional response is just a simple "no, you can't sample my class or turn up an hour late and disrupt the people who were here on time".

 

[sophie]

The email the professor sent was too snarky to actually be praiseworthy. Copying it to the rest of his class for a public shaming was pathetic and this makes him an awful human being.

She shouldn't have come in 1 hr late obviously, but the mature, proportional response is just a simple "no, you can't sample my class or turn up an hour late and disrupt the people who were here on time".

I didn't realize he sent it to everyone. That's too much. Yes she is an idiot for showing up to a class an hour late, I think she's more of an idiot for getting up and walking out of 2 classes mid lecture. There really isn't much more insulting you can do to a professor than get up and leave their lecture.