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In every organization, there are few people who act outside the mainstream and modestly, yet persistently, change the culture.
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Laraine Zappert
advises mothers that
Guilt Is a Sunk Cost
.
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November 2001 
Volume 70, Number 1

Features

No Textbook Answers
On front lines of educational reform, GSB graduates advocate business-inspired solutions to the problems in America's public schools.
By KARL SCHOENBERGER

Understated Leadership
Almost every organization has a few "tempered radicals" who lay the groundwork for slow, yet crucial organizational adaptation and change.
By DEBRA E. MEYERSON, PhD '89

Departments

ABOUT THIS ISSUE

DEAN'S COLUMN

SPREADSHEET
What’s Up: News about the GSB and its graduates.
For the Record: MBA Class of 2003

TODAY
The Class of '03 bonds over strikes, spares, and gutter balls.

LEARNING CURVE
Rebounding from crisis. How a plastics recycling firm survived an industrial accident.
By JANET ZICH

PEOPLE 
People: Hilary Beech, MBA '91
Tom Tusher, MBA '65

MANAGEMENT
Stanford's three Jesuit MBAs are part of a centuries-old experiment in engaging the world for God's greater glory.
By CHERIAN GEORGE

HEALTH CARE
A proposed remedy for the uninsured. Americans can have a choice of health care plans and universal coverage too.
By MEREDITH ALEXANDER

FACULTY NEWS

FACULTY PUBLICATIONS

FACULTY RESEARCH

Virtual prototypes prove to be as good as the real thing. 
Questioning auditor independence. 
Selling violence to children. 
Online disclosures: noise or news?

NEWSMAKERS
Who's in the news: A roundup of media mentions.

CALENDAR

IN MEMORIAM

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