Thursday, April 02, 2009

IS HARVARD GOOD FOR AMERICA?

I'm only half-serious in asking this but I'm beginning to wonder a tiny bit. We know that Harvard has been a breeding ground for wingnuts and now we know it also helped create some of the crooked MOTU.
Harvard Begins Case Study as Tainted MBAs Reveal Damaged Brand
By Oliver Staley

April 2 (Bloomberg) -- Harvard Business School, stung by criticism that it hasn’t prepared alumni to cope with the economic meltdown, will dissect its performance using a practice it employs to examine corporations in crisis.

Harvard’s alumni include Stanley O’Neal and John Thain, the former chief executive officers of Merrill Lynch & Co. who presided over the New York company’s decline; Rick Wagoner, the ousted CEO of General Motors Corp.; and Christopher Cox, former chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

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