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Harvard Business School professor bullies Chinese restaurant
American Thinker ^ | 12/10/2014 | Thomas Lifson

Posted on 12/10/2014 7:17:28 AM PST by SeekAndFind

There is a form of derangement to which professors at highly competitive elite institutions are vulnerable. Jonathan Gruber of MIT (Economics PhD, Harvard) is much in the public eye right now, but Ben Edelman of Harvard Business School (Economics PhD, Harvard, along with a Harvard Law School diploma and a masters in statistics) is beginning to join him in the ranks of infamously arrogant.

Hillary Sargent of Boston Magazine gained access to an email exchange between Professor Edelman and a Chinese restaurant, which he believes overcharged him, based on the prices in their menu that was part of their website.

Last week, Edelman ordered what he thought was $53.35 worth of Chinese food from Sichuan Garden’s Brookline Village location.

Edelman soon came to the horrifying realization that he had been overcharged. By a total of $4.

Short version: the restaurant forgot to update its website with new prices (in case you haven’t noticed, beef prices have skyrocketed recently), and the professor, not satisfied with an offer of a refund, is threatens legal action multiple times.

The entire thread is worth reading and can be found here.

It should be noted that Professor Edelman’s academic specialty includes:

critiquing online "safety" certifications that fail to adequately protect users, flagging numerousdeceptive advertising practices, and documenting airlines' false statements about "tax."


(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Education; Society
KEYWORDS: businessschool; chineserestaurant; harvard

1 posted on 12/10/2014 7:17:28 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
Harvard Business School professor bullies Chinese restaurant

This Harvard "professor", who most likely proclaims himself to be professor to "the best and bightest" apparently never learned the important lesson -

NEVER PISS OFF THOSE WHO HANDLE YOUR FOOD!

2 posted on 12/10/2014 7:43:58 AM PST by The Sons of Liberty (OK. Now How many votes do we need to IMPEACH and REMOVE the bastard?)
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To: SeekAndFind

I’m NOT touching this one........


3 posted on 12/10/2014 7:46:24 AM PST by DickBrannigan (When did logic become reversed, and right became wrong, and wrong became right?)
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To: SeekAndFind

Mr Harvard Law/B School was kinda legit because he figures this Chinese restaurant was skimming from a lot more people than just him. The tattooed bartender/owner is a tell. He was the one mixing it up with the email back and forth


4 posted on 12/10/2014 7:49:11 AM PST by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: DickBrannigan

Everything about Harvard sucks.


5 posted on 12/10/2014 7:49:41 AM PST by golux
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To: SeekAndFind

I’ll say it again - the most reactionary, ideologically extreme, narrow-minded and rigid people you will ever meet are often “academics.”


6 posted on 12/10/2014 7:50:14 AM PST by PGR88
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To: SeekAndFind

Magoo - you've done it again ...

7 posted on 12/10/2014 7:56:51 AM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: SeekAndFind
Reminds me of this classic case:
Pearson v. Chung, better known as the "pants lawsuit", is a civil case filed in 2005 by Roy L. Pearson, Jr., an administrative law judge in the District of Columbia in the United States, following a dispute with a dry cleaning company over a lost pair of trousers. Pearson filed suit against Soo Chung, Jin Nam Chung and Ki Y. Chung, the owners of Custom Cleaners in Washington, D.C., initially demanding $67 million for inconvenience, mental anguish and attorney's fees for representing himself, as a result of their failure, in Pearson's opinion, to live up to a "satisfaction guaranteed" sign that was displayed in the store....

8 posted on 12/10/2014 8:03:05 AM PST by RememberRonnie
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To: The Sons of Liberty

The Harvard professor is a tool.


9 posted on 12/10/2014 8:11:22 AM PST by Kanrok
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To: SeekAndFind
The stupidest and most short-sighted thing the lawyer did here was to alienate a barman of distinction.

Seems that the Chinese man corresponding with him was lauded in GQ magazine for being one of "America's Most Inventive Bartenders" in a recent article.

10 posted on 12/10/2014 8:14:36 AM PST by caddie
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To: SeekAndFind

“Jonathan Gruber of MIT (Economics PhD, Harvard) is much in the public eye right now....”

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Economics huh?

Why is this despicable clown not saying anything about our burgeoning trillions of dollars of debt?


11 posted on 12/10/2014 8:16:38 AM PST by 353FMG
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To: SeekAndFind

My Dad worked for years for a company that was chock full of Harvard and MIT grads.His title gave him management authority over many of those grads.Although my Dad had a good deal of respect for the MIT alums he’d often say about the Harvard grads “you can always tell a Harvard man,but you can’t tell him much”.


12 posted on 12/10/2014 8:43:11 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Jimmy Carter;No Longer The Worst President In My Lifetime)
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To: Gay State Conservative

1) Is your Dad a Harvard or MIT man himself?

2) How’s the company doing compared to the competition?


13 posted on 12/10/2014 8:44:44 AM PST by SeekAndFind (If at first you don't succeed, put it out for beta test.)
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To: SeekAndFind
1) Is your Dad a Harvard or MIT man himself?

Nope.He never even attended college.He was a child of the Depression,was the youngest of 8 kids in a family that was poor even by Depression standards and,as a result,wasn't able to afford college for any of the 8.But he *was* very intelligent,hard working and driven.

2) How’s the company doing compared to the competition?

The company's not doing well today (long story) but,at its peak (during my father's tenure...he retired while it was at its peak) it was a technology leader.My Dad's immediate boss was on the cover of Time a couple of times as a scientific/industry genius.He was,in fact,the Bill Gates/Steve Jobs of the 60's/70's.

14 posted on 12/10/2014 9:31:12 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Jimmy Carter;No Longer The Worst President In My Lifetime)
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