I don’t know how Olivier found this but it seems that London Business School got itself the first nasty gossip blog by a MBA Professor.

Although there is good stuff in it (like linking the poor spring weather to the school future endowment through branded umbrellas), I was quite put off by things like unnecessary Dean-bashing (mocking an old picture from wikipedia and linking “current dean” to a page about “lame duck”) or the piece about “primal urges” – which could have been funny.

That being said, there is also a very nice review of my own blog:

BEEP! BEEP! Check out this guy! Well done to the admissions office - we found the hole in the net where they have been getting in. Quick patch her up and make space for normal people.

While intended of course to be nasty and perhaps provoking to get me to reply and link to this site (the prof needs to boost its audience and visibility), these lines are actually not that bad. I’m used to be considered an original (fool & crazy would do too) and like it. This however raises the following questions: what is “normal people” and should they get in a top MBA?

Bottom line, the mbaprof sounds really like a late April’s fool or the result of a lonely Windsor drinking night (in the absence of Sundowners last week due to MBAT). That’s too bad because I’d love to read a good blog by an MBA teacher. Someone inspiring like visiting Brand Management professor Mark Ritson or Negotiation & Bargaining Gillian Ku, who is closer to the student body – she was at MBAT this week-end.

With just two days of post so far, it’s hard to tell if this blog will last and turn in the entertaining site Olivier is asking for. I’m just afraid this professor is too bitter and aggressive to deliver this.