I too commend George on his paper, knowing that his work at Harvard
Business School was instrumental in their decision to expand their
offerings in busines law. US News and World Report used to include business
law in their rankings of departments (eg finance, entrepreneurship) but
stopped doing so about 5 years ago. As they rated Stanford no. 1 last year,
I'd be happy to help get them info on this issue.

Connie Bagley
Stanford Business School
650/725-3044





At 12:51 PM 10/25/99 -0500, you wrote:
>George's paper is absolutely first-rate.  Any business school administrator,
>or faculty committee working on core curriculum at the undergraduate or MBA
>level, who reads this piece, would be hard put to vote to diminish the role
>of law in the core curriculum.  As I suggested in an earlier comment, the
>subjects who are to be queried on the importance of various subject matter
>in business education should first be given an opportunity to reflect on the
>subjects that have mattered to them throughout their careers.  The
>environment of George's research -- a reprise of the business school
>experience afforded by a general executive education program -- is an ideal
>one for surveying senior executives on what academic subjects have mattered
>to them most.
>
>What's needed now is:
>
>1) More of the same kind of data;
>
>2) a collection of anecdotes from our members describing their schools'
>deemphasization of legal studies;
>
>3) an approach to the business media to report on the issue.  It's doubtful
>that Business Week, or the Wall Street Journal are even aware that many,
>(but not all -- yet) business schools have been systematically engaging in
>the educational malpractice many of our ALSB members are reporting.
>
>Jordan Leibman
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: SALLY GUNZ [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent: Monday, October 25, 1999 9:53 AM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Six Forces Paper and Abstract
>
>
>I would just like to add something to George's email. This paper is an
>excellent example of the combination of survey and anecdotal work. You will
>see
>that George has based his work on a study of certain program participants as
>well as some excellent quotes. The kind of empirical work he has here might
>be
>either available now at your universities in some more limited form (I
>believe
>George's study was designed specifically for this project) or might be work
>that they are interested in carrying out for other purposes but which you/we
>could 'piggy-back' upon. This is what we had in mind to discover -- what
>everyone has available. Again, if this tweaks some ideas in your minds,
>please
>contact Fran Zollers.
>
>Thanks George.
>
>Sally
>
>