William H.Meckling, the former dean of the Graduate School of Management at the University of Rochester, expressed a similar sentiment in an interview conducted by the wall street Journal. In his view,"economics is a discipline that can help students solve the sort of problems they meet within the firm."Recalling his experience as the director of naval warfare analysis at the center for Naval Analysis and as an economic analyst at the Rand Corporation, one of the nation's most prominent think tanks, Meckling stated that these institutions are"dominated by physical scientist types, really brilliant people."However, he went on to say that "the economists knew how to structure the problems...the rest of the people knew a lot about technical things but they had never thought about how you structure big issues.