B-School Alumni Study U.S. Jobs

Some 130 Washington alumni of the Harvard Business School set out this week to determine why the American businessman will or will not accept a high-level job with the Federal Government.

Working with an initial grant of $25,000, the group will soon send out questionnaires to 5000 businessmen throughout the country who have worked for the Government, who have declined to work for the Government, who are currently working for the Government, and who have never been asked by Washington to take a job. Among the purposes of the project, according to its executive director Louis A. Traxel, is to find ways to encourage American businessmen to serve the Government.

"But even if we accomplish nothing else, we'll get the business community talking about this problem," Traxel said last night.