Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Business Schools
What are business schools teaching? While it seems that they are teaching the basics of capitalism, business, marketing, economics, finance, accounting, etc; it seems that they fail to teach and instill in their students some other basic disciplines that are necessary to function in modern society. What do they need to do differently? They could start out with teaching ethics, not just business ethics, but ethical behavior in general. How about courses in civics and citizenship? How about some studies of the humanities to humanize them. Then they could throw in some studies about what they owe to a society that allows them to prosper and why they should not treat business as nothing more than a zero-sum game. Social responsibility has certainly been lacking from the behavior repertoire of our modern business leaders. Sure they owe the shareholders, but what laws of God and man are they allowed to ignore in order to service their share holders. Their behavior certainly tells us what they believe. Bend over society!
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