Toby Stuart

It was super enlightening.

No, my job title was research assistant.

I was an employee.

To this day, it may be the best job I've ever had.

I figured out what a business school was and realized you could do interesting things and that these people were living these dual lives where they were academics half the time and the other half of the time or third of the time or whatever.

Everybody had a different balance, but they were out doing interesting things in the world.

It's been that way for a long time.

It's been that way since a Ford Foundation report in the 30s or 40s.

I mean, I kind of forget the full history of this, but for a long time, business schools have been multidisciplinary.

So a lot of it's what you would think.

There are people with PhDs in economics, PhDs in finance.

They're often econometricians.

There are mathematicians in operations research.

There are psychologists.

There are a handful of sociologists, which is the closest discipline to me.

Yeah.

So these days, I would probably be called more like a computational social scientist.

But yeah, the way that I think is as a sociologist who's learned a lot of economics and a lot of psychology.

Yeah, no, I got a PhD.

My PhD is from Stanford Business School, and it was more in sociology than anything else, but lots of graduate econ courses along the way.