Professor J. Scott Armstrong
Supporting a question that the Harvard Business Review judged “too dangerous, too impractical,” Scott Armstrong fights for social responsibility. Teaching a course with an average enrollment of six, he brings the issue to Wharton. Associate Professor of Marketing J. Scott Armstrong spoke with the journal recently.
Armstrong’s background is as diverse as the courses he teaches. With graduate degrees from Carngie-Mellon and M.I.T., he has taught at the Stockholm School of Economics and worked as a surveyor’s assistant and steelworker. His research ranges from the abstractions of factor analysis to the practicalities of the graffiti problem.
His outlook on the traditional system of American education is dark. “People have no idea when they're learning anything,” he notes. Hence he believes that no course should be required in an institution, and he has worked on projects to eliminate grading.
Supporting a question that the Harvard Business Review judged “too dangerous, too impractical,” Scott Armstrong fights for social responsibility. Teaching a course with an average enrollment of six, he brings the issue to Wharton. Associate Professor of Marketing J. Scott Armstrong spoke with the journal recently.
Armstrong’s background is as diverse as the courses he teaches. With graduate degrees from Carngie-Mellon and M.I.T., he has taught at the Stockholm School of Economics and worked as a surveyor’s assistant and steelworker. His research ranges from the abstractions of factor analysis to the practicalities of the graffiti problem.
His outlook on the traditional system of American education is dark. “People have no idea when they're learning anything,” he notes. Hence he believes that no course should be required in an institution, and he has worked on projects to eliminate grading.