Teaching on 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.

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.

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.

Come on Down: Using a Trivia Game to Teach the Concept of Organizational Justice

Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000