`Egyptian-Israeli Tank War`

Used as a metaphor for the West Point pedagogical style — "they tell you how it's done" — contrasted with the Harvard Business School case-study method and the MIT Sloan quantitative method. Not a forensic teaching case here; cited rhetorically.

That was a perfect description. At West Point they teach you how to do it. You'll study the Egyptian-Israeli tank war of 1973 — how the Israelis wiped out the Egyptians in three days or whatever — and they tell you how it's done. At Harvard they do the case study, and in the case study they're telling you, this is what happened — they're telling you the history of what happened, and you're supposed to figure out how to run a business based on studying the history of mistakes and successes. At the Sloan School of Management, most of the faculty have never been to business school. One time someone did a check, and only twenty or twenty-five percent of faculty at Sloan School had management degrees. Most of them came out of MIT engineering. Sloan is known as having the top programs when it comes to quantitative work — the finance program, the operations research program. Sloan is at the top of some of these areas where you use the mathematical skills and solve the partial differential equations.

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