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...they're going to bring people there to teach and to work who haven't studied and aren't skilled in ethical theory," Donaldson says, adding that if Harvard does bring in experienced faculty, "they will essentially ask them to put that training aside and just use the case method--I think that's what happened to Ken Goodpaster...
Some say the B-School's widely praised case-study method of instruction also makes the teaching of ethics extremely difficult...
...series of talented junior professors have been remarkably interested in introducing undergraduates to the historical method. But given the department's refusal to make a promotion from within, young scholars may soon become wary of coming to Harvard at all. At the same time, the department is falling in influence, and outside historians suggest that the most talented graduate students no longer choose to pursue their doctorates at the University...
...bankers for the still struggling government of President Corazon Aquino. Payments on nearly half of the country's $28.2 billion foreign debt had been rescheduled at interest rates nearly 40% lower than the banks had originally demanded, saving about $1 billion. Ongpin had also won approval for a novel method of turning some of the remaining interest into badly needed foreign investment. Said Betty Starkey, an analyst at Multinational Strategies, a Manhattan-based economic-consulting firm: "The Philippines has pulled off a coup...
...opposition has long criticized the present constitution's indirect method of electing the President. The choice is made by an electoral college of more than 5,000 members, whose votes may be tampered with or bought and whose numbers are weighted by law in favor of the ruling party. Instead, the opposition has stubbornly championed direct elections. It believes that under such a system its candidate would have a chance of defeating a military- supported nominee...