As the economy eroded college endowments around the country, money managers in academia worked tirelessly to contain the damage.
Charles Cory, a longtime Morgan Stanley deal maker, spent the financial crisis cloistered in academia, working as a law professor at the University of Virginia.
In academia, "working from home" is a treasured euphemism for heading home after your morning class to have lunch, read the newspaper and take a nap.
After a long time spent in academia working on a PhD in philosophy and teaching, I changed direction completely and enrolled in a one-year masters programme at a French business school.
PhDs in academia often work in small teams, and going into industry gives them an opportunity to work in large multidisciplinary teams where they need to call on a lot of different skills.
He also began dating Nancy Garvey, a labor economist who had given up a career in academia to work for G.M.; they married in 1988.
If so, do I want to remain in academia or work in industry?
After a few unhappy postwar years in academia, Heller worked as a copywriter at places like Look and wrote a number of derivative but promising short stories.
As in academia, mathematicians working in industry need to be able to identify the main issues within a complex problem and formulate an approach to a solution.
Outside of her career in academia, Koehn works closely with senior executives at a number of large companies on issues including strategic branding and leadership.
