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...resent the slanted use which Teresa A. Mullin made of my remarks in her November 4 article "B-School May Retest MBAs". While Ms. Mullin did not misquote me, she distorted my remarks considerably by presenting me as an authoritative source when I had made it perfectly clear that I was not. I stated repeatedly that I did not think (and I did emphasize the verb) that it was common for professors to investigate case sales histories before administering exams, but that I was not at all sure since those inquiries would not, in any case, be directed...
...fundamental way the Harvard B-School is growing more remote from corporate America," Kiechel wrote. "Increasingly its MBAs don't want to work there. Not in line jobs for big companies, at any rate." He said the school's professors are often investment consultants themselves, and that they use case studies geared to investment banking and consulting rather than management...
...Shad's gift follows the expulsion of first-year B-School student Randall D. Cecola last fall, when Cecola faced SEC charges of insider trading. Cecola played a small role in the same Wall Street scandal that incriminated Ira B. Sokolow and Martin A. Siegel, who obtained their Harvard MBAs in 1981 and 1971, respectively...
Others travel to nearby women's colleges where undergraduates oft fall prey to Harvard MBAs. "There's always been a Wellesley connection," says one student who asked to remain anonymous...
Says AMP instructor and B-School professor George C. Lodge of the program, "It's extremely exciting. It's different from MBAs because they bring a wide variety of often very deep experience." He said that while participants aren't graded, they contribute to class discussion because of peer pressure...