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...Stone on a twelve-day, ten-nation "listening" tour of Central America. On his first stop, in El Salvador, Stone met with Provisional President Alvaro Alfredo Magaña, Defense Minister Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova, and the country's archbishop, Arturo Rivera y Damas. Stone will also visit Nicaragua; it will be the first high-level U.S. visit to the revolutionary Sandinista government since Enders met with Junta Coordinator Daniel Ortega Saavedra there in 1981. Among other things, the Stone visit is intended to emphasize to the U.S. Congress that the Reagan Administration is still willing to pursue...
...unprecedented participation of American academics in policy-making, both in the war on poverty at home and in setting up similar programs in developing countries. Starting in 1962 when President Kennedy called upon the Business School to supervise the establishment of a business school for Central America in Nicaragua under the auspices of his Alliance for Progress program, Harvard has played a leading role in aiding Third World nations. Most of this assistance came in the form of counsulting services for specific projects, such as how to increase crop yield in a particular region...
...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...
...such as the plans which a group of HIID faculty are drawing up at the request of the Aga Khan for his proposed Third World university. The length of the training programs also varies--from the two year business management programs the B-School set up in Barcelona, Spain, Nicaragua, and Iran, to two-week long curriculum consultations and seminars such as the one Klitgaard and his colleagues presented to a Mexican university of public administration...
...There is no more institution building going on at the Business School," says George Cabot Lodge, professor of Business Administration, who played a key role both in the conception and the establishment of the school in Nicaragua. "Instead we prefer short-term projects, setting them up and taking them down like a circus...