"It's not our way of operating to pressure people into reporting favorably on us," said Harrah. "These opinions can and have come out."

According to a December 21 article in The New York Times, Stahlman was told that his article has been pulled because of the intervention of William A. Sahlman, senior associate dean and director of publication activities at the Harvard Business School.

"[Sahlman] is an individual who I believe laid a very heavy hand on the decision," Stahlman said. "He did take a very strong negative view towards the article."

Harris said he asked Sahlman to look at the article but denied that Sahlman's input was a deciding factor in its postponement.

"I talked to quite a few people about the article. [Sahlman] was one of the people who commented on it but I made the decision," Harris said.

After a two week period during which he said he received no concrete proposal from the Review, Stahlman decided to seek publication elsewhere.

Stahlman said his article will run in original from in March in a Forbes ASAP, a quarterly supplement to Forbes magazine, and that a condensed version will appear in today's Wall Street Journal.

Harris said an article will run in the March/April issue of the Review that will "focus on the important points of the [Stahlman] article." Harris said he will write the article himself.

Sahlman said the Review has published articles critical of computer companies in the past.