Word: mcarthurs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dean's appearance at Yale--a news-worthyevent in itself, because McArthur rarely speaksin public--was all the more unusual because of thenature of the event. Here was arguably the mostpowerful leader in business education--a pioneerof the case study method--inviting M.B.A. studentsat a top competitor to critique Harvard's program...
...short, McArthur's presentation stoleRudenstine's thunder...
That same day, the Business School's entirefaculty assembled in a closed-door meeting toreview the results of an internal report of theirown. Commissioned 18 months earlier by McArthur,the report recommended a dramatic overhaul of theschool's flagship M.B.A. program, including areduced reliance on its trademark case studymethod...
...coverage didn't stop there. By Tuesday, astrongly worded article in the Boston Globesuggested that McArthur's public appearance atYale, and his remarks at the June 1992 retreat,were a deliberate effort to derail Rudenstine'svision...
...release of McArthur's comments, the Globestory implied, was calculated to coincide with therelease of Rudenstine's report. The story painteda picture of a Business School, under McArthur,trying to throw off the yoke of Rudenstine'sleadership, and trying to excise itself from anysignificant degree of participation in the funddrive...