Can ethics be taught? perspectives, challenges, and approaches at Harvard Business School

• Main Authors: Piper, Thomas R (Author), Gentile, Mary C (Author)
• Other Authors: Parks, Sharon Daloz
• Format: Book
• Published: Boston, Mass. Harvard Business School 1993; ©1993
• Subjects: Harvard University > Graduate School of Business Administration > Curricula; Business education > United States; Business ethics > Study and teaching (Graduate) > United States; Master of business administration degree > United States
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 When business, government, and other professions fail to meet their responsibilities, it is most often not from an inadequacy of tools, techniques, and theory but from an absence of vision and a failure of leadership that saps all sense of individual or organizational purpose and responsibility. To address this concern, management education must be more than the transfer of skills. It should be a moral endeavor, a passing-on from one generation to the next of a kind of wisdom about responsible moral commitment in complex contexts. Faculty at professional schools have an opportunity and a responsibility to help students connect their capacity for high achievement to a sense of purpose and a set of principles. This book is an explanation of how one business school is trying to place leadership, ethics, and corporate responsibility at the center of its mission. It is a call to rebalance the educational trilogy of values, knowledge, and skills.