Word: mcarthurs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Jackson charges Harvard University and Dean of the Business School John H. McArthur with denying her tenure in 1983 because she is a woman. Judge Douglas P. Woodlock has yet to hand down a verdict on her request for a tenured post at the B-School and $847,000 in lost income and legal fees...
Former B-School Associate Professor of Industrial Marketing Barbara Bund Jackson '66, who charges that her 1983 tenure bid was biased because she is a woman, is suing Harvard and Dean of the Business School John H. McArthur for $847,000 and a tenured post. If Jackson succeeds, she will become the fifth tenured woman in the B-School's 80-year history, and one of four women among the current 90-member faculty...
...last week. In a new book, The Empire Builders: Power, Money & Ethics Inside the Harvard Business School (Morrow; $19.95), Author J. Paul Mark, an ex-Harvard researcher, accuses many B-school profs of stealing ideas from students and using them to get consulting fees and corporate directorships. Dean John McArthur censures the book for "hundreds of factual errors and fabricated events." Typical of the screaming wounded: Professor Michael Porter, who claims Mark never talked with him before writing a tale of alleged pirating of student concepts in a business-strategy plan for the National Football League. There is talk...
...School MBA program's lone course devoted to business ethics. An optional course for second year students, "Ethical Aspects of Corporate Policy" is taught by Kenneth E. Goodpaster, an associate professor who will be leaving the B-School after the fall. Goodpaster's colleagues said he was advised by McArthur that his chances of tenure would be slim if he made a bid for a lifetime post...
While acknowledging that instituting a comprehensive ethics program will be a gradual process, the B-School Dean said at the New York gala that important initiatives are already underway. McArthur points to Bok's University-wide ethics program, which is aimed at versing teachers in ethical issues in the various professions, and a B-School research project focused on competitiveness, ethics and leadership as examples of this effort...