Former HBS Prof Blasts Bush

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As the race for the White House heats up and the nation’s left-leaning heads come together to unearth potential skeletons in President Bush’s closet, one line in his resume has avoided major scrutiny: the time Bush spent just across the Charles River, earning an MBA at the Harvard Business School (HBS) in the 1970s. Now, as some fervently question the commander-in-chief’s performance in the Texas National Guard decades ago and more current-minded politicos take aim at the events surrounding Sept. 11, 2001 and the invasion of Iraq, one former HBS professor is doing his best to publicize his recollections of what he calls a sarcastic, mediocre student who went on to lead the United States.
Yoshihiro Tsurumi, an avowed opponent of Bush’s current views and policies who was a visiting associate professor of international business at HBS between 1972 and 1976, said Bush was among 85 students he taught one year in a required first-year course. In the class on “Environment Analysis for Management,” incorporating elements of macroeconomics, industrial policy and international business, Tsurumi said students discussed and debated case studies for 90 minutes several times a week.

Tsurumi—now a professor of international business at Baruch College in the City University of New York—said he remembers the future president as scoring in the bottom 10 percent of students in the class.

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http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=503181

Among my favorite comments:

“I vividly remember that he made a comment saying that people are poor because they’re lazy”

“ didn’t stand out as the most promising student, but...he made it sure we understood how well he was connected”

“I always remember two groups of students,” Tsurumi said then, according to published reports. “One is the really good students, not only intelligent, but with leadership qualities, courage. The other is the total opposite, unfortunately to which George belonged.”

[HysteryDiagnosis]

1. Texas as an example

In the class on “Environment Analysis for Management,” incorporating elements of macroeconomics, industrial policy and international business, Tsurumi said students discussed and debated case studies for 90 minutes several times a week.<<

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60877-1999Oct14.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22942-2000Jun29.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52193-2000May11.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8505-2000May4.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53408-2000Apr20.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51249-1999Nov26.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33053-2000Feb9.html

[coloradodem2005]

2. Very nice.

Might I add, not very surprising.

[Justice]

3. Funny, people from HBS Remember him, but still not one person

from his time outside Texas in the National Guard.

[greenbriar]

4. after reading worse than Watergate, it is no suprise

there is soooo much to blow he and Cheney out of the water for...



Kerry I hope has read this book

[tanyev]

5. Oh, I can just see it

"people are poor because they're lazy"--followed by that self-amused smirk and a long look at everyone else in the room to soak up the approval of anyone who agreed with him. Grrr!