His millions of fans on PSR demand to know!
Why was Andrew Kerner denied tenure at Michigan?
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Here’s the thing… Kerner is a smart guy, and he definitely had a lot of publications when going up for tenure. But how many of those publications contributed something noteworthy to the field, or are even memorable? When you throw in a bad teaching record and his difficult personality, it’s not a surprising decision even before you get to department politics. It sort of reminds me of the Ben Edelman case at HBS.