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...recent Freshman Council survey shows most freshmen favor the provision of detailed syllabi in the first meetings of all courses...
PRESIDENT BOK has been a prolific writer of late. In between letters about divestiture and the ethics of investment, he has prepared a massive, contemplative report on business education and changes he advocates for the Business School. Not that the two subjects he has recently addressed are unrelated--when Bok speaks of "the growing diversification of firms and their increasing penetrations into foreign markets" in the same report that he observes, "corporate executives have encountered mounting pressures and demands from a variety of quarters," he reminds us of his own recent problems as chief executive of the Harvard Corporation...
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...
...being asked this afternoon by our friends on the left to take a symbolic action or make a speech which is a kind of speaking out against an undoubted evil, the evil of apartheid. Apartheid, however, is not as evil as genocide, and we've had a recent instance of genocide in Cambodia. So our speaking out on the question of apartheid would be in the context of our silence on the question of genocide...
...would like to do simply not because I can vouch for it, not because I necessarily agree with it, because it is indeed a criticism of our policy, just to lay one more strand of complexity before you. I would like to quote from a letter that has just recently come from a man called Howard Shomer, who was formerly a dean of the Divinity School at Chicago and now is head of the Social Responsibility in Investments for the United Church Boards in the United Church of Christ. He says, he's writing to Tony Lewis...