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Harvard Men's Soccer

By: Alison Wood Brooks and Katherine Coffman
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  • | Language:English
  • | Pages:17
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Abstract

In the fall of 2016, the Crimson, Harvard’s undergraduate newspaper, broke a story revealing that the 2012 Harvard Men’s Soccer team had produced a sexually explicit “scouting report” about the Women’s Soccer team. The story generated national headlines and thrust gender issues, and the University, into the media spotlight. In the following months, the breadth of this type of practice was revealed; the “scouting reports” had been an annual tradition of the Men’s Soccer team, and the Cross Country team admitted to similar practices. This case follows the decision-making of Harvard administrators as they deal with the discovery of the scouting report. In addition to exploring leadership through crisis, the case challenges readers to explore the boundaries of appropriateness in how we think and talk about interpersonal attraction.

Keywords

Moral Sensibility; Ethics; Gender; Social Issues

Citation

Brooks, Alison Wood, and Katherine Coffman. "Harvard Men's Soccer." Harvard Business School Case 918-011, September 2017.
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About The Authors

Alison Wood Brooks

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Katherine B. Coffman

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