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...federal judge's verdict is expected shortly in the case of Barbara Bund Jackson '66, former associate professor of industrial marketing, who charges she was denied tenure at the B-School in 1983 because she is a woman. Jackson is suing the University and Business School Dean John H. McArthur for a tenured post at the school, attorney fees and $847,000 in lost income...
Jackson's case came to an eight-day non-jury trial last May and June. The B-School's compliance has been at issue since testimony revealed that 10 years' worth of confidential tenure documents, which the judge ruled were pertinent to Jackson's case, had been incinerated. Allan A. Ryan, Jr., the lawyer representing the University, maintains that the destruction of the documents was inadvertent...
...three-week ethics module, approved last winter by B-School faculty and now required of first-year students, is a marked departure from the school's previous stance of attempting to integrate ethics throughout the curriculum...
...ungraded seven-session course has been praised by students and faculty as both a necessary first step in emphasizing ethics in its own right and as a springboard for discussing ethics further in all aspects of B-School coursework...
Thompson says that the B-School's renewed emphasis on ethics has allowed the ethical concerns of "some of the standard, well-known cases" to be viewed in a new light. "Sometimes this is even more effective," than a specialized class, he says...