Word: methodical
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...first clear reaction to the report came from the Associates of Harvard Business School, an alumni group made up largely of infuential corporate executives. They published a report in January entitled "The Success of a Strategy." The document, as the title suggests, lent sweeping support to the programs and methods of the B-School. While it was carefully phrased to avoid the appearance of direct conflict with Bok, the alumni report did disagree with his criticisms on several points. The most notable difference of opinion came over the school's use of the case method of teaching...
...case method, a Socratic, learn-by-doing teaching technique based on case examples taken from real business situations, has been the object of much controversy over the past few years. Echoing the popular criticisms of the method, Bok recommended that its use be limited, and that more traditional lecture-style teaching be employed to teach basic concepts and mechanical skills...
...Associates' report praised the case method, calling it "the best possible training for analytic techniques." It stressed the method's flexibility and its importance as a touchstone for extensive research into problems of corporate management. "We have a very loyal and supportive alumni group," James L. Heskett, chairman of the Masters in Business Administration (MBA) program, explains. "I think President Bok would have been disturbed had they not responded the way they did." Still, proof though it may be of the B-School alumni's loyalty, their January report served merely as positive reinforcement. Originating outside the school...
...million annually) comes from the Western Co. of North America, an oil well service and offshore drilling firm that he helped found in 1939 and still runs. Chiles, who worked as an oilfield roustabout before earning a degree from the University of Oklahoma in petroleum engineering, pioneered the method of acidizing wells to increase production. In the past five years Western's revenues have nearly tripled, to $275 million. Chiles, whose company holdings are worth $31 million, claims that the anti-Government commercials, which carry a plug for the Western Co. and are tax deductible as a business expense...
...sterility in 80,000 women in the U.S. a year, is primarily linked to venereal disease and sexual activity with more than one partner. Says Dr. Bruce Stadel, coordinator of a $2 million federal study on gynecological complaints: "For women without serious problems the I.U.D. is probably a reasonable method of contraception and may sometimes be preferable to other methods." But until the issue is firmly decided, many physicians are declining to recommend the I.U.D. for young, sexually active women who have not borne children and are advising it mainly for those mothers who do not want any more babies...