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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP Prof here.  Maybe I wasn't clear about how we evaluate teaching.  It is true that we care about teaching evaluations by students, but we look at all of the questions (these include things like whether the instructor is organized, whether the class is challenging, etc. etc.) though the overall 'rate the instructor' question also matters quite a lot.[/quote]

Business Prof here.  Business schools are dependent on tuition money, and the consequent emphasis on teaching ratings diluted and destroyed the M.B.A. degree.  Teaching ratings are all correlated with the same factor of making the students feel like they learned a lot, regardless of whether they actually learned a lot.

It is fine to have some teaching professors.  But you need to have serious scholars to maintain the curriculum.  When some undergrad majors start over $100K, and Wall Street compensation soon exceeds $200K, what kind of professor quality will you get cheaply?  It might be a great person who loves teaching, but not someone who stays on the cutting edge of the field for decades.
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Seems like a lot of strawmen here. No respectable business school is displacing serious scholars. Tenured profs still teach the MBAs. A major problem with business programs is that the “cutting edge of the field” is not all that cutting edge or valued by employers.[/quote]

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