We all know by now that teaching ethics as a standalone subject doesn’t work because it marginalizes what should be centralized.
Harvard’s attempt to teach emotional intelligence in a few weeks seems likely to confront the same problem.
What is challenging about ethics in business is that most people simply do not identify an ethical problem when they encounter it; they don’t perceive the options or the consequences of their choices.
And that failure of perception is even greater when they are saddled with debt - which takes me right back to Problem 1: the cost of MBA programs.
Harvard’s attempt to teach emotional intelligence in a few weeks seems likely to confront the same problem.
What is challenging about ethics in business is that most people simply do not identify an ethical problem when they encounter it; they don’t perceive the options or the consequences of their choices.
And that failure of perception is even greater when they are saddled with debt - which takes me right back to Problem 1: the cost of MBA programs.