Fleck was not CEO of Fleck Manufacturing during the Fleck Strike of 1978, which is considered important for a variety of reasons—including raising "women's issues" to new importance in union politics—but it was also a reaction against extremely poor working conditions. At the time of this strike, Fleck was either the full time Deputy Minister of Industry and Tourism in Toronto or the Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies, Business and Public Management, at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass during that entire period. For more details on the strike see Backhouse, Constance, The Fleck Strike: A Case Study in the Need for First Contract Arbitration (December 1, 1980). Osgoode Hall Law Journal 18 (1980) 495-553. Fleck was on the faculty of the Harvard Business School teaching first-year finance in the MBA Program, 1964-1966. From 1966-1970, he was professor and associate dean, Faculty of Administration Studies and director, M.B.A. program at York University. He has also taught, as a visiting professor, at the Keio University Business School of Tokyo; INSEAD (The European Institute of Business Administration in Fontainebleau, France) and the University of Western Ontario, as well as teaching courses in corporate finance, business policy and business/government relations. From July 1978 for 12 months he was the William Lyon Mackenzie King Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies, Business and Public Management, at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Professor Fleck is the emeritus M. Wallace McCutcheon Professor of Business Government Relations at the Faculty of Management, University of Toronto and a senior fellow, Massey College. His publications include "Business Can Succeed!", "Understanding the Political Environment" (with A. Litvak, Canada Publishing Corporation), "Canada Can Compete!", "Strategic Management of the Canadian Industrial Portfolio" (with J.R. D'Cruz), "Institute for Research on Public Policy", and "Yankee Canadians in the Global Economy, Strategic Management of U.S. Subsidiaries under Free Trade." He has co-authored with Professor J. D'Cruz several articles for "Business Quarterly", one of which, "The Globalization of Manufacturing", received the Silver Medal in the Deloitte & Touche "Best of the Best" Awards covering the first thirty years of the "Business Quarterly." From 1969-1971 was executive director and member of the Committee on Government Productivity, responsible for carrying out a study that led to a major re-organization of the Ontario Government.