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<text id=91TT2163>
<title>
Sep. 30, 1991: Business Notes:Executive Suite
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
Sep. 30, 1991 Curing Infertility
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
BUSINESS, Page 52
Business Notes
EXECUTIVE SUITE
Unbecoming An Officer
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<p> When a Navy consultant inadvertently left a confidential
report at Bath Iron Works last May, officials of the Maine defense
contractor could not resist the temptation to peek. Chairman
William Haggett ordered up a photocopy of the report, which
reviewed the cost of a rival firm's work on the Aegis guided-
missile destroyer program. But after briefly scanning the report,
Haggett decided he had made "an inappropriate business-ethics
decision" and returned the document to the Navy, which launched
an investigation.
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<p> Still filled with remorse, Haggett, 57, stepped aside last
week as chief executive officer, a position he had held since
1983. While he will remain chairman, Haggett turned over to
president Duane Fitzgerald day-to-day responsibility for the
company, whose work force of 10,400 makes it the largest
employer in Maine. Haggett, the son of a Bath Iron Works pipe
fitter, said he relinquished control because he had failed to
set a strong moral example when he copied the sensitive Navy
document.
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</body></article>
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