[DOWNLOAD] "Making Business Moral (Opinion) (Essay)" by First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life * eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Making Business Moral (Opinion) (Essay)
- Author : First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
- Release Date : January 01, 2008
- Genre: Religion & Spirituality,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 55 KB
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Business is a calling, even a vocation. It is, to be sure, a way of making a living, sometimes a very good living indeed, but it is also a way of serving. In these dimensions it is like law, medicine, and the other learned professions. And the great schools of business are like the great law and medical schools. Like the other great professional schools, however, many business schools are going through something of an identity crisis. Last year, the Wall Street Journal published an article previewing From Higher Aims to Hired Hands, a book by Rakesh Khurana, a professor at the Harvard Business School. Khurana does not spare even his own school from the charge that, as the Wall Street Journal puts it, "M.B.A. training has deteriorated into a race to steer students into high-paying finance and consulting jobs without caring about graduates' broader roles in society." Khurana charges that the "logic of stewardship has disappeared" from business education. "Panoramic, long-term thinking," the Wall Street Journal sums up Khurana's argument, "has given way to an almost grotesque obsession with maximizing shareholder value over increasingly brief spans."