Methinks your accounting professor never was a CEO. It took me a lot longer than 3 weeks at my new job to understand the key structures in the application I work on.
Yep, like a company culture they weren’t fixable in a couple months.
That's a pretty safe supposition no matter what he said. Risk preference is real. There is very little overlap between the set of CEOs and the set of accounting professors.
Your anecdotal evidence beats out a professor, sure.