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...B-School Grads...
...tray" (sled on the Union's meal trays) on Weeks Bridge. In the spring one sophomore sat underneath the bridge every morning to feed the ducks. Just beyond the bridge lies the prettiest of all Harvard campuses--the Business School. You can marvel at the myopia of the B-School students, who look singularly homogeneous with their briefcases and harried faces. They never seem to notice what a delightful place to stroll their campus...
...says he chose this year to analyze the B-School because next year he must appoint a new dean, and he wanted a chance to familiarize himself with the B-School faculty and programs. The current dean, Lawrence E. Fouraker, will leave his post some time next year. Bok says his report is not meant to be critical of Fouraker, but neither he nor Fouraker will give reasons for the dean's departure. Fouraker, in fact, has no comment at all on any of Bok's criticism...
...shadow of Stanford's business school looming large over Harvard's prestige may also have motivated Bok's report. MBA magazine has granted Stanford a higher academic rating than Harvard in its last two polls on business school quality. Although such polls always raise doubts, some of Bok's suggestions for the B-School--especially his eagerness for the school to do more research--hint that Bok may want Harvard to move a few degrees away from its management-training emphasis toward Stanford's academic research approach. Although Stanford's reputation for academic excellence has improved in recent years, Harvard...
...Business school faculty and administrators may end up simply filing Bok's report under miscellaneous correspondence and forgetting about it. They feel their recent curriculum reform constituted enough change for a while, and students seem to agree. B-school people don't even like to talk much about Bok's report. Instead, they present an unfrazzled and unrevealing front to the world, while inside students continue to prepare as before for the day when they will "take charge and run something...