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the groves of academe

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the groves of academe  (formal)
universities or education After a year's travelling in South America, Jack returned to the groves of academe to teach Spanish at Cambridge.


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But managers do emerge from our colleges and universities, fleeing the groves of Academe for high-paid jobs in business and industry -- to be seen again only at football games and alumni gatherings.
Back in 2005, London Business School's late Sumantra Ghoshal caused a furore in the groves of academe with a paper called Bad Management Theories Are Destroying Good Management Practices, which excoriated the business schools for their role in helping to create the Enron and WorldCom scandals.
Collins proves that if a tree falls in the groves of academe and no one is there to hear it or see it fall, it will still get deconstructed and analyzed to death.
 
 
 
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