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The most egregious case of this ego at work is the Faculty Council's resounding rejection last May of the CUE study abroad legislation. The Council's ostensible reasons for its nearly unanimous opposition to the proposal concerned 'quality control' at other colleges, the difficulty of estimating how many students...
Early capitalism did not foresee the rise and growth of the huge, bureaucratic corporation. Adam Smith opposed what he called the joint-stock company, arguing that hired managers would not work zealously for firms they did not own. More than a quarter-century ago, Harvard Economist Joseph Schumpeter glumly concluded...
Inflation, Communist style, is real, though artificially repressed. In the U.S.S.R. and elsewhere, state subsidies hold down the prices of some necessities, and the government pays the bill by keeping wages lean. Bureaucratic ministries are slow to make minor price adjustments. Thus, when prices do increase, they explode. Last year...
The first priority of his new job, in fact, had been to reorganize Harvard's archaic management structure. In 1970 on the Corporation's urging, a consulting firm came into the Yard to examine the University's failing bureaucratic machine. Using the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as its model, the...
The result of this technique. Bok's detractors say, is a University in which change has to be wrenched from bureaucratic jaws and rarely moves outside traditional perspectives. If the deeply divided Faculty rendered change impossible during Pusey's last years, change under Bok is a terribly slow, plodding process...