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