Word: methods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...made their biggest charges yet. Even as the General Accounting Office was leaking a report criticizing the Department of Energy for foot dragging in its petro-probes of smaller middlemen, DOE was accusing seven of the largest oil companies of overcharging refineries by $1.7 billion since 1973. The alleged method: selling petroleum at far higher prices than permitted under domestic crude-oil controls...
...damned library after him--then the deed will be done and everybody will have to look to the future. And if critics ask to examine all future gifts to prevent further Engelhards, Bok answers that an overall policy is too hard to work out, and a case-by-case method is inconsistent and arbitrary...
BUSINESS SCHOOL administrators, faculty, and students are unanimous in their support of the case method--it is probably the chief reason Harvard MBAs are so eminently eminently employable and well-paid. Business faculty see cases as the heart of their work. A recent faculty report speaks of "the oral tradition that surrounds the program an involves the passing of program lore from one faculty member to another and from one student to another." "Case materials" are used in 80 per cent of the required courses in the MBA program. "We try to teach students not subjects and techniques but attitudes...
While Bok doesn't suggest the abandonment of the method, he does seem to want to make junior faculty feel more comfortable about departing from it when they want to. His chief criticism of the method is that it monopolizes the time of professors and prevents them from conducting research into new fields in business education--like government regulation and ethics. Business faculty say the case method forces research into the kinds of practical problems their school wants to teach. "The case method is a method of research--Bok's report is somewhat like telling a chemist...
...changes in the use of the case method are bound to be glacial. Still, the term covers many different types of teaching, "as many different types as there are cases," according to one professor. The changes Bok proposes for the Business School curriculum are another matter. He favors the creation of separate new courses to cover the emerging disciplines of ethics, employee relations, and government regulation...