Eric Lin

The Record You Keep Comes With You

Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A piece by Tawnya Means this week has had me thinking. She tells the story of Christopher Noe, an MIT Sloan lecturer who handed an AI a stack of his old teaching notes and got back a draft that seemed, in his words, to read his mind - down to an ice-breaker question and a tax aside he had never actually typed out. As a professor of business, I’ve had this experience, too, and I want to build on one thread in the article rather than add another round of applause.

How Costly Is a Resume Gap for Executives?

Sun, 01 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Grades are not prices

Mon, 07 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

In a recent EconTalk episode, Daisy Christodoulou explored the challenges of educational assessment, drawing provocative parallels between grades and prices. She suggested that grades, like prices in a market, help allocate attention, shape incentives, and guide decisions. It’s a striking analogy—and one that resonates with the broader themes of the episode, which reflected deeply on tradeoffs, transparency, and the limitations of rule-based systems. But as I sat with the idea, I found myself questioning whether the price metaphor truly captures what grades are—or what we need them to be. This essay is a reflection on that metaphor, and an argument for thinking about grades and educational feedback in a different way.

Do the Best and Brightest West Point Officers Stay in or Leave the Army?

Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Entrepreneurship is About Skills, not Personality

Sat, 16 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Want to be an entrepreneur? You need to know business (and a whole lot more)

Too often, business and entrepreneurship are portrayed as starkly different pursuits—business as a predictable, rule-bound domain and entrepreneurship as a thrilling, boundless journey fueled by creative risk-taking.

What is the difference between the Financial Economics and Business majors?

Thu, 26 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Oberlin is launching two majors – the first one is Financial Economics, a major in the Economics department. The second is the major in Business. Not surprisingly, the close relationship between these two topics have students frequently asking me, “what’s the difference?”

What will be different about Oberlin business?

Thu, 26 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Business education is often patterned after an MBA model. But that isn’t optimal at the undergraduate level. Undergrads often lack the lived experience that MBA students bring to their graduate classrooms. As such, the principles introduced in class stick less since students don’t have an experience-based reference.

Why business at Oberlin?

Thu, 26 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

I have been asked on several occasions, “why a business program at Oberlin College and Conservatory?” I suppose for those familiar with Oberlin’s long standing association with the liberal arts, performing arts, and social progressiveness, the idea of standing up a business program seemed surprising.

Resume Gaps Still Matter

Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Identify Critical Roles to Improve Performance

Fri, 01 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Can a More Detailed LinkedIn Profile Boost Your Salary?

Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Now You See Me, Now I'm Gone

Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Determinants of Gender Differences in Change in Pay Among Job-Switching Executives

Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

The Positive and Negative Effects of Social Status on Ratings of Voice Behavior: A Test of Opposing Structural and Psychological Pathways

Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

New Directions in Voice Research: Exploring the Relational Context of Voice

Tue, 03 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Job-Hopping Toward Equity

Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Fanning the Voice Flame: Unpacking How Leaders and Peers Impact Employee Voice

Fri, 07 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000

The Positive and Negative Effects of Social Status on Voice Ratings: A Test of Two Opposing Pathways

Thu, 30 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Does Corporate Misconduct Affect the Future Compensation of Alumni Managers?

Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Early Predictors of Successful Military Careers Among West Point Cadets

Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000