Tag Archives : Ethics

We started to get a little antsy when more than a few days went by since the last “Blame the business schools for the economic meltdown!” article had appeared in the popular press. Thankfully, Forbes provided some salve by asking whether we should blame the business schools, the graduates themselves, or the companies that hire the graduates.

Much of the article is the normal chatter about how the typical business school curriculum places too much emphasis on shareholder value and not enough on improving the community around the enterprise. While we don’t disagree, it’s hard to argue that this trend in management education alone contributed to the problems our economy now faces. It is one ingredient of the problem, for certain, but we’re wary of anyone who believes that the few hundred hours a young professional spends in some some finance courses in business are enough to steer that person towards world-class leadership or financial self-destruction.

Should ethics be part of the U.S. News law school rankings? That was the question posed recently at a conference of the magazine’s editors, and the subject of a recent blog post by Bob Morse, of Morse Code.