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...Harvard, whose alumni base and student population is larger than all other business schools, there is a great tendency for a dean to focus on outside issues, says Dickinson Professor of Accounting Robert S. Kaplan, who until 1983 served as dean of Carnegie-Mellon Graduate School of Industrial Administration. In addition, he says, business contacts must be fostered to generate source materials for the over five million copies of case studies the school distributes annually...
Roommate Eric Kaplan '89, a former Lampoon vice-president, thinks Tarazi uses his outrageous sense of humor to ease the tension of these conflicting loyalties. For example, he says the humor of wearing drag may appeal to Tarazi because it mocks and exaggerates conventional roles...
Without humor, Kaplan says Tarazi could become a dogmatic "Trotskyite intellectual" with no real personal life. "With a sense of humor, you can live with the contradiction and be optimistic that it won't turn into a tragedy," he says. "The best leaders are not going to be the people who are so totally one-sided and have no zest...
...bastion of mediocre evil," Kaplan added, smiling sweetly...
...They felt like we'd gotten them," Kaplan said...