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Oct 22, 2008, 04:00 PM
 
Check out the Wall Street Journal. Apple just hired a Yale bigwig to start Apple University. I'm not sure what that means exactly but I presume it will be for Apple employees and possibly some outside developers. Good to see Apple putting some of that $25 billion cash to good use.

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Oct 22, 2008, 04:31 PM
 
I heard the food sucks, and the girls are totally butch. Safety school, IMO.

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Oct 22, 2008, 04:42 PM
 
I thought the food on the Apple campus was great, cooks from the region the food is from, fresh stuff (although I've eaten there only once).
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Originally Posted by OreoCookie View Post
I thought the food on the Apple campus was great, cooks from the region the food is from, fresh stuff (although I've eaten there only once).
Pretty good pizza, too. They also have relatively cheap sushi. It's funny that they charge for it. I know Google, Yahoo, and Cisco have free cafeterias for people. And yes, Steve Jobs eats in the cafeteria. We actually saw him at our Apple training.
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Originally Posted by olePigeon View Post
Pretty good pizza, too. They also have relatively cheap sushi. It's funny that they charge for it. I know Google, Yahoo, and Cisco have free cafeterias for people. And yes, Steve Jobs eats in the cafeteria. We actually saw him at our Apple training.
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P.S. Here it is on Bloomberg:

Apple Inc. hired the dean of the Yale School of Management to lead a new project called ``Apple University.''

Joel Podolny will serve as vice president and dean of Apple University, company spokesman Steve Dowling said today in an interview. He declined to provide details about Apple University, describing it only as an ``exciting new project.''

Podolny, 43, will leave Nov. 1 to lead Apple's educational initiatives, Yale President Richard Levin said in a letter posted on the university's Web site. Podolny joined Yale in 2005. He was previously a professor at Harvard Business School and Stanford University's Graduate School of Business.

``I obviously wish that the call from Apple had come later in my tenure, but we can't always control the timing around such things,'' Podolny wrote in a message to colleagues. ``I am excited to know that I will be joining an organization for which I have so much respect and enthusiasm.''
     
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Oct 22, 2008, 07:19 PM
 
Universities are where the moneys at! I'm paying out out the wazoo to one right now.
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Oct 23, 2008, 12:13 PM
 
Originally Posted by Eug View Post
Good to see Apple putting some of that $25 billion cash to good use.
I vote for a fricking dividend. How is that, Apple???

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Oct 23, 2008, 12:29 PM
 
They should just let Aaron Hillegass run the place. Met him. Awesome guy. http://www.bignerdranch.com
     
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Oct 23, 2008, 02:17 PM
 
My guess is they're going to create something like GE's Crotonville.
     
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Oct 23, 2008, 02:24 PM
 
Originally Posted by Powerbook View Post
I vote for a fricking dividend. How is that, Apple???
Apple prefers growth to dividends.

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Oct 24, 2008, 05:45 AM
 
Ok...im not picky on food so not a problem, intrrsting to see what theyd teach and how good the uni is....
     
   
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