Almost exactly three years ago, Apple made a high-profile hire for a low-profile position: it recruited the dean of Yale's Business School, a professor named Joel Podolny, to run Apple University -- a project aimed at imprinting then-CEO Steve Jobs' philosophies and vision onto Apple employees. Jobs himself meticulously planned the concept of Apple University based on a similar success story at Pixar, and saw it as a way to continue his legacy, the LA Times reports.
