Word: reforms
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...BUSINESS FACULTY is unlikely to sit down to review its curriculum again in the near future. This leaves Bok's suggestions in limbo, making his report more a spur to discussion than a set of concrete reform proposals. Even so, Business School administrators should take the report as a sign that others within and without the University are concerned about the strength of the school's commitment to ethics. Witness the flurry of media attention earlier this year over a course in "Competitive Decision-Making" taught by Howard Raiffa, Ramsay Professor of Managerial Economics, which drew fire from the Wall...
...applications." No one--least of all Bok, who praises the Business School throughout his report for its leadership in new fields--is laying siege to the idyllic lawns and halls across the river. But the Business School administrators must not only answer Bok's criticisms with internal discussion and reform, but also try to let the public know they are responding. If they fail to, the public will have nothing to base its opinions on but its suspicions and their silence...
...begin by assuming two principles which I think have been amply demonstrated. The first of these is that the presence of United States corporations in South Africa does materially support and reinforce the regime and apartheid. The second premise is that there is no evidence that the Sullivan reforms have had any appreciable impact on apartheid, indeed, it is difficult to see how such reforms can have any impact. In light of these premises, the present policy of the Harvard Corporation seems to be one of empty and ineffective gestures towards reform, gestures which, however well-intentioned, cannot have...
...been said that Harvard is only a tiny investor. But in the sphere of public opinion. Harvard is a whale, capable of generating tremendous currents for change. Harvard is a leader in curricular reform, Harvard is a leader in investment policies. A whale trying to act like an ostrich looks silly at best, and at worst, evasive. And that is the lesson we are teaching our students...
Last fall Leach committed the heinous sin of persuading Congress to pass two bureaucracy-busting amendments to the Civil Service Reform Act. One requires the Government to reduce its civilian work force by Sept. 30 to the level of two years before and maintain it for three years-a cut of 29,000 employees. The second amendment orders the Administration to think up ways of shipping part of the Federal Government out of town...