Schools for scandal. (courses on business ethics at universities)

Economist (US), The, January, 1988

IS BUSINESS ethics a real subject? To judge by the increasing interest in the fledgling discipline it is. Harvard Business School is still deliberating what to do with its $20m gift for teaching ethics from Mr John Shad, a former chairman of America's Securities and Exchange Commission. The Journal of Business Ethics, founded in 1982, has so much material that it is shifting from six issues a year to 12 in 1988.

Courses on business ethics at American business schools are no longer regarded as soft options at second-rate schools. At the Wharton School in Pennsylvania, the number attending such courses at any one time has risen from 15 to 90 over the past five years. There has also been a steady increase in interest at Harvard, where almost a quarter of all the...

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