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Amidst all the fanfare over the upcoming dedication of the new Kennedy School Building and the praise being heaped on its Dean, Graham Allison. I want to put aside the accolades and relate to the university community a most disappointing incident involving the highly lauded Dean Allison...
While doing preliminary research on my senior government thesis, I attempted to make an appointment to see Dean Allison regarding some sources and data pertinent to his book, "Remaking Foreign Policy." I was bluntly told by his secretary that "Dean Allison makes it a policy of not seeing students." Surprised, yet realizing the constraints on his time, I wrote him a letter explaining what I wanted to discuss. That letter was written four weeks ago, and Dean Allison has not even accorded me the dignity of a response...
...help deal with the problem "we have secured funds for a professorship of applied ethics and public policy," Allison said. The professor will develop ideas about applied ethics and formulate a curriculum...
...still evolving and, since there is no tradition of training in public policy, still an experiment. Officials at the School like to compare it with the Harvard Business School. The Business School was founded in 1907 "and for the first 30 years really didn't amount to much," says Allison. Only during the war did it become "the preeminent institution in professional training for managers and business that it has become." The question is whether or not a school of government can come to play an analogous role...
...Allison's querie is not far off the mark. Dunlop speaks of the two schools as complimentary. People in the public sector can benefit from knowledge of the private sector and vice-versa, he says. He is helping raise funds for two parallel professorships, one on each side of the river, to be occupied by professors with a high degree of competence in business-government relations...