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...time of gift's announcement, McArthur said Harvard would definitely not be introducing a required ethics course into its MBA program. The changes would be more comprehensive, he added...
Many scholars have criticized the B-School for showing relatively little institutional commitment to the field of business ethics. They point to the absence of any tenured ethics professors in its MBA program and required courses in the discipline. But others defend Harvard's record saying the University has kept pace with its rivals in its teaching of ethics, and addresses the issue regularly, although informally...
Currently only about 60 students are enrolled in the B-School MBA program's lone course devoted to business ethics. An optional course for second year students, "Ethical Aspects of Corporate Policy" is taught by Kenneth E. Goodpaster, an associate professor who will be leaving the B-School after the fall. Goodpaster's colleagues said he was advised by McArthur that his chances of tenure would be slim if he made a bid for a lifetime post...
Businessmen and Wall Street wizards who choose not to go in for illegal tactics aren't--and won't be--swayed by one course they were forced to endure back in school. Ethical sensibilities are the product of an extended formation and MBA students already in their middle to late 20s have for the most part made their fundamental decisions about their responsibilities to society...
...ethical considerations take their proper place in the policy process. Executives will have to allow such considerations their place, even if it affects the bottom line, and they'll have to exert pressure on their peers to do the same. Until that happens, the questions confronting Harvard MBA's in their future careers will continue to be: what can we get away with? or, how can we limit the damage...