Yale MBA dean to found Apple University
Joel Podolny will leave his position as dean of Yale's business school to join Apple in early 2009.
(Credit: Yale)Apple has hired the dean of Yale's School of Management to head up a new program called Apple University.
It's not clear exactly what Joel Podolny will be working on at Apple, but a note from Yale President Richard Levin to students announcing Podolny's departure said he would be leading "educational initiatives at Apple." He'll join the company in early 2009, but Apple representatives are not commenting on what he'll have on his plate, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Apple University could encompass several things: increased marketing and distribution to college students and universities, already a bastion of Apple's customers; an expansion of a current project known as iTunesU, or an internal training program for Apple employees similar to McDonalds' famed Hamburger University. The WSJ notes that Pixar--founded by Apple CEO Steve Jobs--has a similar program in place for animators called Pixar University.
Podolny won't need any introduction to the Apple world, telling Yale students in his farewell e-mail that he's been a Mac user since the days of the Apple II. "These events are part of the fabric of my life, and I am excited to know that I will be joining an organization for which I have so much respect and enthusiasm, a company whose reputation for innovation and excellence is second to none," he wrote.
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On a side note, I spoke with a company recently who can't get a Mac version of their product out the door becuase there's no talent pool out there and the ones that are there "want $200/hr and have gotten fat and lazy" - his quote not mine.
You must like getting lost in the mountain of dung that's available for Windows.
Always the same tired 'quantity vs. quality tripe' from the mediocre majority objectors.
As to your friend, tell him to expand his search or re-evaluate whether his product has a place on a Mac or is just a port of some uninteresting Windows app.
Again with the market share thing. First of all, Apple is approaching 10% (haven't you read the news lately) but you don't realize what percentage means in business terms in the first place. Do you think Microsoft started with a lot??
You definitely would be a candidate for this or any business program since you have a lot to learn, or admit.
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by Mr. Dee
October 23, 2008 12:25 PM PDT
- I can picture the first batch of graduates from this University of Apple:
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(8 Comments)Walt Mossberg, Barbara Streisand and Al Gore.