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...addition, certain members of the Class of 1961 are also negotiating with the B-School to endow a second, separate chair, Goodson said...
Organizers of that school's 25th reunioncelebration had reserved Memorial Hall three yearsago, and plans were underway to have the about 800participants stroll through the Yard on their wayfrom the Charles Hotel to Memorial Hall. But nowthe B-School must bus the celebrants from one siteto another, sources said, to avoid throngs ofundergraduates in the Yard...
...business school too has been grappling with some troubles, though nothing quite so anguishing as the law school's. A 1985 poll of 134 national companies measuring employer satisfaction with M.B.A.s dropped the business school from its longtime rating of national leadership to third place, behind Northwestern's Kellogg School and the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School. One shortcoming that some critics perceive: although business-school alumni still rate first in management skills, they may not be on the cutting edge of economic and market theory. Bok seems to have agreed with this assessment. In a 1979 report...
...Another question about the B-school is why it has not been more outspoken on issues like business ethics. Indeed, the school has suffered a few ethical embarrassments of its own. Last spring academic eyebrows went up when it was revealed that a business-school professor gave a slide presentation at a seminar to National Football League executives, allegedly on a strategy for putting the United States Football League out of business, which seems to have happened. The Harvard seminar was cited as evidence in the recent and largely unsuccessful antitrust suit brought by the U.S.F.L. against the N.F.L...
...Light, chairman of the finance area at the B-School, said, "Things are quite different now than 10 years ago--the structure of markets is changing rapidly," during the seminar "Current Developments in Capital Markets...