Ivory-tower types have always insisted that it is futile for anyone to try to beat the market.
And this contribution to development in the real word is likely to be of far greater importance than that of any ivory-tower theorist.
And prominent entrepreneurs serve on the staff, not just ivory-tower academics, helping students get a feel for what the challenges of the business world are really like.
Other times Holly (known as "Z" to colleagues and friends) is trying to convince skeptical venture capitalists they can deal profitably with a university and its ivory-tower professors.
Will university endowments continue to defy the ivory-tower theorists?
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Furthermore, in America today it is exceedingly rare to find the kind of insular ivory-tower mentality that makes professors in Europe so loth to interact with and keeps them isolated from the realities of their fellow citizens.
He nowadays would be covered in tar and feathers and chased out of the ivory tower for self-plagiarism?
Many Malaysians will see you as someone who lives in an ivory tower, hob-nobbing with the hoi-polloi and out of touch with the realities of what is happening in Malaysia.
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One force behind all this money has been the fall of the ivory tower that once kept professors above real-world concerns.
And therefore it runs against the traditional Genentech narrative, in which a group of altruistic biologists come down from the ivory tower to save the brutes at the New Jersey-based drug giants.
The entire debate over the terminology might look to a marketing practitioner like an Ivory Tower nitpicking but it is an important one because metaphor-based terms rely on our understanding of the underlying concepts to guide our actions.
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