Reflections on research in progress, teaching experiments, and broader questions about how organizations work and why they sometimes don't.
Universities say they value breadth and interdisciplinarity, but their budget and curriculum systems quietly reward departments for owning students rather than educating them.
Benchmarking is supposed to inform strategy, but in higher education it often becomes a substitute for it, producing expensive sameness instead of distinctive choice.
America is not just underfunding higher education. It is shrinking its idea of what higher education is for.
Generative AI offers domain experts something far more important than productivity—a mechanism to reclaim professional control over their own work.
Exploring the unexamined assumption that business logic is a universal skeleton key for complex institutions.
Moving beyond the 'practical vs. inquiry' divide to create a more flexible, ethical, and integrated university experience.
A look at the 'Dog's Dinner' of higher ed strategy—where administrative bloat and consultant-led sprawl replace focused institutional choice.
How AI can be the catalyst for stripping away administrative sprawl and returning the university to its essential foundation: the relationship between faculty and students.
Reflections on presenting early findings from our Confidence Women project at Miami University's Ohio Entrepreneurship Research Roundtable.
An introduction to this site and what you can expect to find here — research, teaching, and reflections on entrepreneurship, strategy, and higher education.
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