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...Robert Klitgaard '68, associate professor of Public Policy, who has worked with Bok on this issue and will accompany him to Washington, said recently that the ACE committee might show some flexibility on the SAT provision...
...Klitgaard sums up Harvard's changing role: "In the '60s, the idea was that we had the magic and they had the needs. In the '80s, it's much more of a two-way street." He adds that now, whenever he goes abroad. "I always come back to this country with new materials...
...request of the Aga Khan for his proposed Third World university. The length of the training program also varies--from the two-year business management programs the B-School set up in Barcelona, Spain, Nicaragua, and Iran, to two-week long curriculum consultations and seminars such as the one Klitgaard and his colleagues presented to a Mexican university of public administration...
...these programs, despite their differences, do have a common strand. They are, in Klitgaard's words, "capacity developing": instead of merely providing solutions, they are establishing a new class of managers--whether in the public or private sector--who will be the nuts and bolts of maintaining that country's development...
...Klitgaard recalls a seminar that he and several colleagues conducted in Mexico in the fall of 1980 which was a condensed version of the K-School's "Workshop" course on the fundamentals of management--memo writing and cost-benefit analysis. A Kennedy School professor was working from a case study on the cost and benefits of building a dam, and explaining how to weigh the cost of finding alternative accomodations for Indians in the proposed site against the benefits of the improved power the dam would provide. A Marxist member of the Mexican faculty broke in and criticized the technique...