Word: raiffa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...story clearly has been repeated and embellished. Raiffa last week received a telegram from Zurich reading, in part: "Last week, a well known columnist [Mseva Maria Borer] in a mass-circulation newspaper in Zurich wrote an article with the title "Lying Can Be Taught..."In the article she referred to your course on competitive decision making. The course section dealing with the strategy of deception was quoted as an example of the decadence of American society in general and the business world in particular. Teaching the youth and the future manager how to lie most effectively seemed...
...press has blown this way out of proportion," Steiner, said and Raiffa agrees. Of the many articles written about his course, Raiffa approves of only two: one an interview in last week's Harvard Gazette, and the other a Globe story by Charles L. Whipple. "The Whipple article pointed up errors in the Journal article and said the press, in this case, was wrong," said Raiffa. "That's a very gracious step to take...
Bulkeley, however, said "I stand by my story." "My portrayal of the class was accurate." Although some students quoted in that story claim Bulkeley took their comments out of context, even Raiffa agreed that no one was actually misquoted...
...Raiffa reports that his colleagues in the B-School and around the country have been "very supportive." So, too, have his students. Raiffa has a file of letters from former students, including some of those quoted in the Journal article, declaring their support for him and for his class, and their disapproval of Bulkeley's article...
...apparent that strategic misrepresentation is to be encountered not only in the business world, but also in the world of journalism," one letter begins. Another, addressed to Fouraker, calls Raiffa "a man whose honesty and compassion earn him the admiration and affection of those who, like myself, are lucky enough to know...