The folks at Wharton should leave the Ivory tower and get out into the real world.
They tied pay and budgets to performance, even for scientists in the ivory tower.
Those doing the study, Robert Arnott and Peter Bernstein, are not Ivory Tower theorists.
For all its creative excellence, the Ecole de Nancy was, then, no effete ivory tower.
While Kaplan's competition looks to rebuild the ivory tower, Kaplan COO Andrew Rosen has no such intention.
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Regulators and industry talk past each other, while the ivory tower tries to cut through the middle.
After all, as a curator, I had exhibition budgets, so that wasn't an ivory tower existence, believe me.
He nowadays would be covered in tar and feathers and chased out of the ivory tower for self-plagiarism?
Four years holed up in an ivory tower could be a waste of your time and your money.
Military personnel are not gambit pawns to be sacrificed in some global chess game played by ivory tower warriors.
Zuckerberg lately has gotten the reputation of the billionaire exec in the ivory tower, wearing a hoodie of course.
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The Ivory Tower, however, was not quite as thrilled with her plans to spread this message as she was.
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Lastly, spending time in the stores vs. only in the ivory tower of the corporate office is a must.
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LA's far northern periphery has turned it into something of an ivory tower.
Lawrence Smarr inhabits the ivory tower, yet he helped create underpinnings of the Internet, the World Wide Web and Netscape.
The president has also shown an inclination to aid his Ivory Tower benefactors by going after their competition: for-profit schools.
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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.
So it was a collaborative approach and not the global brand team sitting in an ivory tower creating these new positionings.
To get an idea of the gulf between the ivory tower and Main Street, take a look at the essay by Yale professor Robert Shiller.
It not only makes ivory tower education available on a grand scale, it encourages people to keep up learning in small doses throughout their lives.
"Wine belongs on the table, not on a pedestal or in an ivory tower, " says Joel Peterson, general manager of Ravenswood Winery, part of Constellation Wines.
It also was evidence that, in this era of the social Web, fashion designers and retailers are no longer operating in an ivory tower or for solely the red carpet.
You use words like 'bubble' 'ivory tower' and pithy insults.
Two decades ago, conservatives liked to argue that the ivory tower had put academics out of touch with reality, and that conservatism had reason and science on its side.
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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Perhaps he should have stayed in his ivory tower.
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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.
They recently published a new book Unlocking the Ivory Tower: How Management Research Can Transform Your Business (Kauffman Fellows Press) which is a monumental and comprehensive survey of academic thinking on business management.
Mr Singer's influence extends to the world beyond the ivory tower partly because he writes with such lucidity and quiet passion about genuinely pressing questions: the environment, the rich-poor divide, cruelty to animals, human suffering.
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