Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...When you've got numbers that large and issues that complex, there's a lot of room for interpretation," O'Brien said of the government's method of suditing universities...
...perhaps the most fiercely protective company in the U.S. In a booklet distributed to employees, Chairman John Opel warns, "IBM increasingly is a target for people interested in illicitly acquiring significant business secrets. Over the years, there have been a number of actual thefts." The booklet describes an elaborate method of protecting company as sets, including a four-level system for classifying documents and computer data from "IBM Internal Use Only" to "Registered IBM Confidential." This spring IBM took three senior executives to court for revealing privileged information...
John V. Lintner, Gund Professor of Economics and Business Administration died in June in an automobile accident in Cambridge at the age of 67. He was widely known in financial and academic communities for his major contribution to the capital-asset pricing model, a method of estimating an investment's future value. Lintner headed the University's joint Ph.D. program in economics and business for 15 years. He also served as a consultant to the Treasury Department under both Democratic and Republican administrations...
...past decade, other Harvard affiliates have followed the lead of the B-School, which has, in the past three decades, set up seven institutes of business management, taking the case study method to Turkey, the Philippines, India, Nicaragua and Iran...
...extent to which Harvard's curriculum is shipped abroad differs from project to project. The Business School has peddled its case study method wholesale and has actively supported new institutions in Italy, Turkey, India and Nicaragua, while other professors prefer to operate as individuals, lending a favorite case or problem set to an already existing institution...