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...criticize the school in his report--not scathing criticism but the hallowed case method of study came in for some hard knocks, and he called for more integration of research and teaching and the development of several new areas of business study. James Heskett, chairman of the Masters of Business Administration program, calls the report "a very good invitation to discussion," but few Business School officials expect many changes to come from it. Some, including many students, feel Bok's criticisms are unjustified...
Nevertheless, the school still has no separate course. Heskett says the school prefers to treat ethics as it comes up in class and calls attention to a recent poll of students showing that they sense an increase, throughout the school, of concentration on ethical issues. He feels that the students who most need training in ethics are the ones who are not interested enough to take a full course in the subject...
...faculty recently approved the recommendations of a committee chaired by Heskett, which studied the Business School curriculum for two years. Under the revised curriculum, the areas Bok outlines get treatment in bits and pieces in a variety of courses, including "Human Behavior in Organizations," "Business Policy," and "Business, Government, and the International Economy." There is no separate ethics course. Heskett says the Business School prefers to treat ethical problems wherever they come up in each course, rather than pigeon-holing them into one course which might, be dominated by those students who already have a special interest in ethics...
...Raiffa, Ramsay Professor of Managerial Economics, which drew fire from the Wall Street Journal as a course in "teaching lies." Administrators may have their reasons for not instituting a separate required ethics course, but the outside world knows only that there is none. The unwillingness of administrators, aside from Heskett, to comment on Bok's report or to answer some of his questions only aggravates matters...
...Heskett says, "I would hate to see a siege mentality develop--right now the only thing we're besieged with is applications." No one--least of all Bok, who praises the Business School throughout his report for its leadership in new fields--is laying siege to the idyllic lawns and halls across the river. But the Business School administrators must not only answer Bok's criticisms with internal discussion and reform, but also try to let the public know they are responding. If they fail to, the public will have nothing to base its opinions on but its suspicions...