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New York 78 Mutual funds 81 Nasdaq 83 Small-cap market 83 American 84 IS THE BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBE JUNE 30, 1996 ECONOMIC PRINCIPALS th bullies David Warsh SS-t The fortune that never was As John Donovan rolls out companies, he leaves behind both admirers and enemies HE PUBLIC SKIRMISH OVER 1 the reputations of Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor David Baltimore and Tufts University researcher Thereza Imanishi- BOSTON CAPITAL JOHN DONOVAN'S RESUME RUNS FOR FIVE JAM- packed pages. He is an established authority on the technology revolu- tion, a man who preaches his gospel of change to 4,000 top executives every year around the world. He has written six books and has been a tenured professor in engineering and business at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an assistant clinical professor of pediatrics at Tufts Medical School. STEVE BAILEY STEVEN SYRE i Still battling Ft i LjA In addition to his own Cambridge Technology Group, Donovan has helped start at least sue other Massachusetts technology companies, including Cambridge Technology Partners which in just two years as 1 a public company has seen its stock market value explode to nearly $1.4 billion. Donovan's latest venture is aimed at the red-hot Internet market, and when it sells stock to the public in July it could finally, on paper at least, give him the really big score that has alluded him until now.

The question: Would you bet on the latest racehorse to come out of the Donovan stable? The answer, in part at least, is likely to be found in what you make of the career of this complex and accomplished man. He is a man who is fiercely ad- mired by his supporters as a charismatic visionary and just as fiercely disliked by his critics as a man who constantly promises far more than he delivers. "People either very quickly want to adopt him or kill him. No one-is neutral on him," says Stuart E. Madnick, a longtime MIT colleague who wrote books and started companies with Donovan before a falling out ended their relationship.

Donovan knows what people say about him. But as he tells his own story, the place he starts and keeps returning to is a place not found anywhere on that five-page resume: Barrett Street in West Lynn, a place where the bullies were constantly out to get him and his brother, Paul. "These kids used to jump out and really lay on us from these alleys. I got so 1 I was pretty good. I used to go in back of the alleys and run down behind these buildings.

There were these little picket fences, and I got so I could jump fences faster than other people. It's unfortunate my brother didn't always make it." Today, Donovan, 54, continues to come back to that Lynn neighborhood where he grew up in a third-floor tenement apartment; his goal now is helping I to run the programs he's established for disadvantaged kids. His life, however, is far away in a large home in Manchester and another in Pomfret, Vt. This Irish-boy-made-good is a member of the snobs-only Myopia Hunt Club and knows his way around the Bermuda society circuit, and his five children are well provided for by trust funds built on his companies. DONOVAN, Page 74 Kari has been formally ended by a report deeply embarrassing to the government.

It may have been the climactic battle in a behind-the-scenes war that for 15 years has been waged to identify and occupy society's ethical high ground at the end of the 20th century The story involved the usual cast of characters: whistleblowers, government operatives, politicians, big businessmen, powerful scientific rivals, crusading journalists, policy entrepreneurs. 'V Now that the government case against Imanishi-Kari has collapsed under study by a scientific review board and all charges of fraud have been dismissed people are searching for an explanation of what went wrong. US Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.) is a bully, 1 that's for sure. It was Dingell who sicced the Secret Service on Imanishi-Kari hoping to prove that she had forged her federally funded research data.

The government gumshoes dutifully returned with a finding of fudged notebooks a conclusion viewed by the scien- tists who conducted the review as almost laughably "not proven." With the change of control of the House of Representatives after the Republican landslide of 3,994, Dingell has lost much of his power. Top aide Peter Stockton has gone, and Ned "i and Walter Stewart, the self-styled "fraud-busters" of the National Institutes of kualtli, have been reassigned to other work and are now widely regarded as cranks. The "Office of Scientific Integrity" has been renamed the "Office of Research Integrity" and reorganized its procedures are being extents sively rethought. But other ingredients were necessary to take down Baltimore, the former Rockefeller University president and winner of a Nobel prize in medicine who had been regarded ly as a paragon of virtue until he defended his collaborator Imanishi-Kari against charges by a fellow researcher that she had fabricated data. In the story of how Imanishi-Kari's career was put on hold for 10 years and Baltimore compelled to resign, these four themes (at least) have been neglected.

1. Woman against woman Xhe whistleblower in Imanishi-Kari's lab was a young post-doc named Margot O'Toole. How much significance should be attached to the fact that she was nine years junior to the well-established Imanishi-Kari when they staiied working together in 1985? The life of science is hard enough for empowered young 1 men; how much harder must it be for young women trying to catch on without the benefit of well-developed networks among colleagues and mentors based on friendship and fellow-feeling? As laid out in a brilliantly illuminating article by Daniel Kevles in the New Yorker last month, O'Toole brought to the lab the usual of tensions among her commitments: a jhighly principled father (who had himself writ- ten a play about a whistleblower), a marriage, son. As a scientific supervisor, Imanishi-Kari could be as overbearing as a drill instructor: O'Toole told Kevles she remembered her say-? ing', "You'll never amount to anything. You'll never get a job.

You'll be just one of those women the husband has to support." Imanishi-Kari herself was divorced and happy enough to work the long hours that competitive science 'requires. How often do such relationships among ac-' complished women snap from intense cooperation one moment to charges of theft or fraud or inappropriate behavior the next? Insufficient attention has been paid to the WARSH, Page 73 John Donovan is fiercely admired by supporters as a charismatic visionary and fiercely disliked by critics as a man who constantly promises far more than he delivers, i oiip Donovan's Track 'Record Company Business Year founded Donovan role Status 11 International Computation 1 Communications 1966 Cofounder Sold, 1967 between IBM computers Mitrol Database management software 1971 Cofounder Sold, 1973 Cambridge Technology Group Executive seminars 1980 Founder Current revenue $llm Knoware Inc. Educational software 1983 Cofounder Bankruptcy, 1984 0 Cambridge Technology Partners Systems integrator 1988 Founder Sold, '91-'93; Current revenues $200m Open Environment Distributive computing software 1992 Founder Sale pending. Current revenues $430m Brainstorm Lotus Notes interface to Internet 1992 Investor Private iisJ OneWave Internet software- 1994 Investor IPO expected in July Marathon Fault-tolerant computing Investor Private Women's groups target limit on sex harassment cases By Diane E. Lewis GLOBE STAFF For women suffering trauma, the state's 6-month rule on filing a workplace suit is ah unfair burden, some say INSIDE Charles A.

Jaffe: Some brokerages are moving toward "portability," where a client can leave the firm without having to close accounts. Page 76 Kenneth Hooker: For long-term IRAs, investor should build around core holdings. Page 76 After a jury found two male coworkers and an accomplice guilty of trying to rape Karin Clarke in an alley near her job, family members were certain the 19-year-old had an airtight negligence and sexual assault case against her employer, which the family blamed for not preventing the attack. But in a move that stunned the Clarkes, a federal judge threw out the civil case. The reason: Clarke had not filed a sexual harassment charge within six months of the attack.

Her only recourse, the court said, was to seek back wages and medical benefits under the state's workers' compensation system rather than seek larger damages before a jury. Sexual harassment and sexual assault are among the hottest legal issues in the workplace. More and more women are bringing complaints against not only the individuals who allegedly abused them but against employers, to hold them accountable for on-the-job assault and harassment. Since 1990, the number of sexual harassment complaints filed with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination has increased from 100 to just under 500 in 1995. During the same period, claims filed with the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission rose from 6,127 to 15,549.

But women also are finding that the road to justice can be rocky. They face a complex thicket of laws and regulations governing when, where and how they can seek legal recourse for sexual abuse in the workplace. In Massachusetts, for example, women say their complaints have been hindered by a requirement in the state's antidiscrimination law that claims niust be filed within six months of the alleged occurrence. Clarke is among several women who have had their cases thrown out for missing the deadline. In many instances, courts are steering the claims to the workers' compensation system, which generally lim its damages to back pay and medical costs.

On a single day in May, the state's Supreme Judicial Court issued decisions in three cases that reinforced limits on filing sexual harassment claims. Under the state Fair Employment Practices Act, known as Chapter 151B, a complaint of sexual harassment must first be filed with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination before a woman can go on to court. Women's advocates say six months js far too short a period for victims of assault or harassment, who may take months to come to terms with a traumatic event. "The six-month statute of limitations is totally unrealis-, tic because most women are not even aware of their legal rights, and it may take years before they can come to, terms with the trauma," says Boston lawyer Nancy Shi-. HARASSMENT, Page 77 i.