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...breed comprises a vocal minority of first-year MBA students manifesting a genuine interest in solving the problems of an ill society which they do not ignore. They are demanding more relevant business cases to study and an all-around smaller work load. One first-year discussion section, which got more than its proportionate number of new breed students, even went so far as organizing a book burning last February. Dozens of copies of Analysis of Decisions Under Uncertainty, by Robert O. Schlaifer, a Business School professor, went up in flames. Unwilling to accept the book passively, bookburner John...
...last January. Many of them have spoken to the new dean, Lawrence E. Fouraker, but feel they have not been able to talk to him in any meaningful way. In the years just before he became dean, Fouraker taught only in special advanced programs. As a result virtually no MBA student recognized Fouraker's name when he was awarded the deanship. Fouraker, who has generally refused to discuss with the press any difficulties he is having at the school, was surprisingly frank about his relationship to the MBA student body. "It's still a critical problem," he admitted...
...petition and participated in an anti-war march from Soldiers Field to Harvard Square. The Business School is encouraging its faculty members and students to participate in a new half-million-dollar program, the Roxbury Institute of Business Management. And on May 18, the 90 black students in the MBA program went out on strike to protest the murders at Jackson State and in Augusta...
...stereotype of 750 first-year MBA students going to their classes in three-piece suits and carrying attache cases, is becoming less and less accurate. They are rebelling against tacitly prescribed dress codes. (Undergraduates may remember that coats and ties were required for College meals as recently as Fall. 1968.) Some MBAs are eagerly applying the business skills taught at the school to become more efficient dealers of marijuana, instead of following the more traditional HBS paths to acquiring profits...
Waiving final examinations was one of four options the MBA faculty passed yesterday for students participating in the Afro-led strike...