Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...major difference from the Mad Max kind of two-dimensional role--I saw this guy as having a lot more dimension and a more real approach to life, and a conflict inside himself which he resolves more completely in the end...I think you have to be different. I think in those films he's seen as normal--it's normal behavior for that world. In this it is not, it's abnormal...
More generally, business interests and ethical concerns regularly conflict in the real world that B-school students eventually will face. In a competitive business environment knowing something that the other guy doesn't know is the way to turn big profits. Secrecy and deception, whether legal or illegal, are part of the game. The line between the kings of financial shenanigans that are legal and those that aren't is arbitrary. Many graduates of another professional school, the one located just behind Littauer, will spend their careers thinking up ways for investors to bend...
While in some instances the profit motive may be held in check by a strong sense of ethical responsibility, good business and good ethics rarely work in harmony; the conflict almost always remains. Did Union Carbide readily pay out millions to the families of the Bhopal disaster, despite its clear responsibility for what happened? Does the certain knowledge that cigarette smoking is unhealthy prevent tobacco companies from putting forth all sorts of spurious arguments to the contrary...
Harvard's Resolution of Rights andResponsibilities, passed by the Faculty of Artsand Sciences in 1969, guarantees freedom of speechand movement but does not discuss situations whenthese rights may be in conflict. The proposeddiscussion group may help to fill that void,according to Jewett...
...potential to be productivebecause there's been a lot of conflict," saidprotestor Jay I. Hodos '89. He urged Jewett toinclude students, faculty, administrators andother University employees in the discussiongroup...