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Although Judge Douglas P. Woodlock did find that Harvard "deserved to be sanctioned" for burning 10 years' worth of B-School records and for failing to produce documents promptly, he also found the destruction to be inadvertent...
...B-School's grading system gives as much weight to class participation as to exams, discouraging reticence while rewarding those who contribute to class discussions. As a result, students say they often address the ethical elements of a case study only in last-ditch attempts--called "chip shots" in B-School parlance--to offer a relevant comment before class time elapses...
...B-School is not alone in having few ethics specialists among its faculty. Accomplished ethics professors are a select group, say scholars in the field, and even the B-School's greatest efforts would fail to secure as many professors as teach in programs such as finance or marketing...
...former Yale School of Management professor who will teach ethics at Harvard next year cites this enthusiastic environment as a primary reason behind his joining the B-School faculty. J. Gregory Dees, a fellow in the Ethics and the Professions program, says that although he favors expanding the required module to a full semester course, the school's new focus has impressed him as a "modest first step...
...there remain some B-School students who have yet to be convinced that the study of ethics, either in its own right or in the context of other cases, is a necessary element of business education...