u/PlasticInteraction45

I wouldn't argue that Buffet is a good investor, he has a great longterm record. Berkshire excels at finding good businesses at cheap prices and playing the long game.

For the most part, Berkshire hasn't in the past meddled with businesses they buy as long as profitable they are happy. But Berkshire, for all their analysis acumen, don't really come up with smart business ideas (that we know of) or start a pilot business. Just thought this was interesting as you'd think they would have the financial side down pretty well and could maybe spot opportunities to fill a gap. I'm not saying start a rival to McDonald's but maybe starting a responsible investment advisor service for private citizens or practically anything given their cash.

Also, Buffet when deciding what to do with his wealth just sort of picked Bill Gates and his foundation and was like, "well, I'll let them decide" which is pretty rare. Then recently with questions about Bill Gates I think he farmed out the decision to kids or something like that.

I'm not saying build something crazy like a transcontinental monorail system, but what if they bought land to make a preplanned community built to quality standards or something like that, a Buffetville or something or built low-cost housing in the US or abroad that would eventually turn a profit, or helped build a university in the developing world.

Due to limits on federal loans for the MBA degree, business schools are heavily discounting the degree:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MBA/comments/1tb6f7k/wsj_there_is_a_fire_sale_on_mbas/

"Many schools, already facing financial challenges, find they have to discount their tuition significantly to fill seats, said Tim Westerbeck, co-chairman of higher-education consulting firm Eduvantis."

I figure there must be supply and demand coming to affect the tuition offered at MPH programs at some point. Maybe business schools are more savvy, or their prospective students are more savvy given the current issues with federal loan limits and the daunting and unwise prospect of taking out private loans.

Isn't graduate school sort of like an airline? Like at some point the plane is going to take off regardless if a seat is filled or not and better to fill it any a lower price the not at all?

I think the good public health schools allow you to talk to faculty, whereas some of the worst ones don't let you talk to faculty and you have to sort of work in teams and get taught by teaching assistants, so a different cost per student per school but similar issue facing all graduate programs I would think.