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...calendar reform is that all of Harvard's schools should operate on a single, unified schedule. But it appears that it would, in fact, be easier to coordinate all the faculties on the present system than with the proposed reforms; only two University programs--the Business School's MBA program and the Kennedy School of Government's public policy program--now have first semesters that end before Christmas...
Schorsh never wrote the thing of course, but Peter Cohen, an MBA who passed through the Business School more peacefully and more successfully, has written a book The Gospel According to the Harvard Business School: The Education of American's Managerial Elite: The Case of Section B, about what he thinks is wrong with the school. Unfortunately, the book is as poor as the title is long...
...problem that earlier in the book Cohen has disclosed that Aldrich 108 has no windows to shut and bolt, this just does not make it as well-handled prose. Perhaps reading all those cases that business school students must read (they are expected in the first year of the MBA program to read three cases or so a night, each case presenting a particular management situation or problem) has prevented Cohen from mastering a more expressive English prose style...
Whatever the merits of this thesis, it is hardly an original one, and Cohen's failure to refine it is consequently serious. Cohen is a Harvard MBA, much as the school may like to forget it after this mistake of a book, and as such he may well be a living monument to one of the major problems the Business School faces--its curriculum has a balance between theory and practice different from the rest of the university's and therefore its graduates, however adept at management, may not be so good at writing what should be imaginative sociological studies...
...students who responded to the proposal, 125, or 94 per cent, were in favor of it. Although Frost hoped to obtain about 350 responses, the number that did respond "is a large enough percentage of the second-year MBA class to make the views presented that much more valid," he wrote in a letter to Lawrence E. Fouraker, Baker Professor of Administration and dean of the faculty of Business Administration...