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...pleasant experience to be accepted and selected by my peers,” said Spangler, who received his MBA from Harvard Business School (HBS) in 1956 and helped fund the construction of the Spangler Center, a 121,000-square-foot student center which opened at HBS in January...
...Spangler became a member of the Overseers’ executive committee and currently chairs the committee on finance, administration and management, as well as the visiting committee to HBS. Spangler has also served on the committees on humanities and the arts, natural and applied sciences and alumni affairs and development...
After graduating from HBS in 1956 and spending two years in the army, Spangler returned to Charlotte, where he headed his family’s construction, real estate and banking operations. During the 1980s, as chair of the Bank of North Carolina, he organized a successful merger with the North Carolina National Bank Corporation, now known as NationsBank...
...most blatant and deeply disturbing challenge to free speech this year, however, occurred at Harvard Business School (HBS). HarBus, the Business School’s independent student publication, printed an editorial cartoon that criticized HBS’ bug-ridden “Career Link” software, labeling the purveyors of the program “incompetent morons.” Nick A. Will, the editor-in-chief of the weekly newspaper, then resigned after administrators called the cartoon a violation of the Business School’s Community Standards requirement that each member of the school have...
This blindingly obvious subversion of student press rights rightly caused an uproar. HBS bent its Community Standards clause until it broke. HarBus’s editorial cartoon may have been rude, but sometimes it’s the crass speech that gets the “incompetent morons” to fix their buggy software. Administrators at all levels must keep this in mind before they overstep their bounds and irresponsibly try to shut down dissent...