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Adding Value and Values to the MBA
When students return to campus in coming weeks, so will debate about the purpose of management education and the role of ethics. Columnist Gael O’Brien wonders whether current business leaders will support training new leaders in skills and competencies that support new models of business – or will it be simply business as usual?
Ethics Specialist Named Dean of Harvard Business School
Harvard Business School professor Nitin Nohria has been a faculty leader of the movement to adopt an MBA Oath, a voluntary pledge for graduating and current MBAs to “create value responsibly and ethically.”
Are Business Schools to Blame for the Financial Crisis?
The director of a leading graduate education program in responsible business thinks the key to corporate responsibility is integration of sustainable thinking and action into day-to-day business as well as students’ coursework – but achieving that “represents a fundamental shift in the way companies are run and what students are taught.”
Opinion: MBAs Adapting to Changing Times
Jeanette Purcell, CEO of the Association of MBAs, says the economic downturn has fueled much debate about where the blame lies for the financial crisis we’re in. Some critics have pointed the finger at business schools which, it is argued, have been teaching the wrong things to MBA students and neglecting topics such as risk management, corporate governance and business ethics. These criticisms, counters Purcell, overlook the significant changes in business schools that have taken place over the past decade.
VIDEO: New MBA Buzz – Corporate Social Responsibility
Garth Saloner, dean of Stanford Graduate School of Business, talks with The Wall Street Journal’s Diana Middleton about the growing focus on corporate social responsibility in its business school curriculum and why it’s important.
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