In one of our Comm 101 tutorials we had a debate about whether its worth going to MBA straight after bachelors degree or not. The opinions split. One thinks that MBA gives that valuavle networking bonus. Other thinks that you would gain the same advantage by actually working. Moreover, you will get paid for this, not wise verca.

But are business schools actually doing enough for growing aware leaders, not just effective professionals that will sacrifice morals for outcome?

Gianpiero Petriglieri in his HBR blog raises that question ones more. It appears, that for the past decades social responsibility was not one of the B-school graduates’ topics.
“Most business schools have introduced mandatory ethics courses and revamped curricula to incorporate concerns about personal principles and social responsibility. But is that enough?”
(http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2012/11/are_business_schools_clueless.html)

However, author believes that business schools can be the source of ethics awaraness in future leaders, and are in fact striving to do so. They are in “transition”, meaning the ways of teaching ethics are still to be perfected. Though institutions are on the right track.

I do realize most of my classmates are what we call “aware”, and ready to be socially responsible. But that is the view inside of comfortable box. When we are all out to the real world, words “ethics” and “responsibility” may and most likely will fade away, to be replaced by $.

Can we make teaching ethics in business school more effective?

I would suggest having mandatory projects, which studetns have to lead/participate in, that deal with real life hardships of people around.

Seeing people in harship yourself is much different to studying people in hardship sitting in the warm classrom after big fat lunch.