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Such a place already exists, according to Peter F. Drucker, 76, prolific author, consultant and master thinker on management problems. Writing in the forthcoming issue of the quarterly Foreign Affairs, Drucker, currently a professor of social science and management at California's Claremont Graduate School, claims that all the conditions he describes are the products of the modern world economy. It is also a world in which classical economic theory and traditional economic policy are fast becoming irrelevant. The U.S. and other countries, he says, will only continue to prosper if they recognize that fact...
...most unsettling to executives confronted by sudden catastrophe. Says Fink: "The savviest chief executive in the world often falls victim to a kind of paralysis when a crisis strikes." Any kind of conditioning may thus be comforting in a crunch. Says Jean Lipman-Blumen, a professor at California's Claremont Graduate School's Executive Management Program: "The worst part of a crisis is being unprepared. By removing the unexpected quality you are removing that which is most unnerving...
...Angela Hom, 21, grew up in a sweatshop owned by her parents, where women's blouses were made. "When I was little, we would work until 1 in the morning, then sleep on the cutting table," she says. This year she wrote her senior thesis at Scripps College in Claremont, Calif., on garment workers. "This is my parents' dream," she says. "This is America. America gives rights to women that would be unattainable if we were back in our homeland...
...Washington Post Executive Editor BEN BRADLEE at Scripps College in Claremont, Calif.: "In its lay -- or nongovernmental -- form, press bashing is most apt to show up in the form of libel suits. The Philadelphia Inquirer has no less than 21 libel suits filed against it today. We have had a big one going with the former president of Mobil Oil. Four judges have considered it; two have ruled for him and two for us, but unfortunately for us, the last two were his. It is on appeal now, and our legal bills alone have already topped...
Harvard's toughest competition will probably come from Claremont-McKenna College of Los Angeles. Calif and the University of Kentucky in I exington, according to Swaine...