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Criticized by some of its own professors forbeing prejudiced towards management andpolicymaking, the K-School hopes that Thornburghwill bring a new emphasis on electoral politics tothe school. But President Bok and K-School DeanGraham Allison may have picked such a dedicatedpolitician that Thornburgh may practice what hewas hired to teach in the upcoming 1988presidential elections...
...Blake P. Allison...
Even insiders admit Harvard has been lax on this issue. "We've been struggling with this program. We would have been much better off as a university if we had instituted the [ethics] program five years ago," says Kennedy School Dean Graham T. Allison. "Harvard has not done as well as we should in this domain...
...people have blamed Harvard for failing to train the next generation of leaders, as national scrutiny of ethics increased after the Iran-contra scandals and the Wall Street insider trading cases. "Whatever the ills of the society are, somebody will find a way to relate them to Harvard," says Allison, adding that, in New York and Washington, Harvard is perceived as churning out graduates who are interested only in "getting rich quick...
...Mike was the first real live elected politician we engaged with in a serious manner. When I hired him there was less than unanimous enthusiasm in the faculty. In fact, there was substantial opposition," Allison says. "But I hired him because I saw Dukakis as an unusual person with great creativity of mind," he says...