Timing is everything.
Last spring Kirk Hanson, senior lecturer in business administration, had recently completed a comprehensive social audit of the British retailer The Body Shop and was about to step down from a two-year appointment to the Santa Clara County Political Ethics Commission, which governs candidates' and officeholders' ethics and campaign fundraising. During his 18 years at the GSB, he has taught Management of Non-Market Environments in both the MBA and Sloan programs, as well as Ethical Dilemmas in Management and Negotiation. He even went on the Asian field trip with the Sloan class of '94. Today, half of the class is drawn from the international community, mainly Asia, Europe, and South America, and Hanson would like to see more from Africa and Eastern Europe. We believe they have a lot to learn from each other and from the management problems encountered in different industrial settings.