Michael HornThought leader creating a world where all individuals can build passions & fulfill their human potential. Author of the national bestseller Job Moves: 9 Steps for Making Progress in Your Career

The Role of Professors

Name: The Role of Professors
Uploaded: 2025-10-20T13:14:47+00:00
Duration: 45 s
Channel: Michael Horn
Description: In this excerpt, Michael Horn argues that professors should partner directly with companies to tackle pressing, real‑world problems. By embedding…

20 Oct 2025 · 1 min

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In this excerpt, Michael Horn argues that professors should partner directly with companies to tackle pressing, real‑world problems. By embedding academic research within real‑time case studies rather than relying on outdated textbook material, faculty can keep their work topical and in demand. This collaboration also gives students hands‑on experience on frontier projects, bridging the gap between theory and practice and creating a feedback loop where industry needs shape research questions and student learning.

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And I think, right, the, the knowledge experts are still useful in terms of guiding those questions and helping create those connections. And can you imagine like the professor who is, you know, with, with a company, say, actually helping them solve the pressing problem with the frontier of academic research on stuff like it's real time case studies, as opposed to the book I wrote, you know, however many years ago that I still teach, can you imagine that would start to do both to professors research being more topical in demand, and then a connection to students actually being able to practice at the forefront of that on real projects?