Harvard Business School professor bullies Chinese restaurant

American Thinker ^ | 12/10/2014 | Thomas Lifson

[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."

[The Sons of Liberty]

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!

[DickBrannigan]

I’m NOT touching this one........

[dennisw]

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

[golux]

Everything about Harvard sucks.

[PGR88]

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

[Liberty Valance]

Magoo - you've done it again ...

[RememberRonnie]

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....

[Kanrok]

The Harvard professor is a tool.

[caddie]

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.

[353FMG]

“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?

[Gay State Conservative]

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”.

[SeekAndFind]

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

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

[Gay State Conservative]

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.