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THESE FIRST-YEAR MBAs really never got to know George P. Baker, who retired from the deanship 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...
...charged "psychological atrocities of similar magnitude" at the Business School. The black student strike led the Faculty to adopt a series of exam options similar to those at the College (waiving exams, take-home exams, or make-ups in the Fall). Once the exam options were passed, many white MBAs joined wholeheartedly in the strike. Some black and white MBAs are now working together over the summer to plan ways of sensitizing the incoming first-year class to social problems...
...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...
...change in atmosphere most often explained by "the new breed of first-year student." This type of student is not interested primarily in becoming a corporate vice-president soon after he graduates. His immediate goal in life is not merely to exceed the median starting salary for Harvard MBAs ($13,500). Instead, the new breed of Business School student is often interested in going into social work, polities, or education. He goes to the Business School to learn how to deal with businessmen, not to become...
Afro has scheduled a meeting on Saturday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. when its members will discuss with white Business School students the ways they can combat racism on campus and across the nation. The timing coincides with first-year MBAs' first exam, a four-hour marketing test. Finals for second year students began one week...