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No revised lesson plan at b-schools; Back of the class: ethics after Enron.(News)(business schools)
Crain's Chicago Business, February, 2002
Byline: SARAH A. KLEIN It's fodder for a case study in any business ethics course: self-dealing, questionable bookkeeping, conflicts of interest and a corporate culture that exalted profit and pay above all other values. While the Enron-Andersen scandal has forced accountants, corporate directors, politicians, regulators and Wall Street analysts to rethink the way they do things, the controversy apparently hasn't touched off a similar wave of soul-searching regarding ethics instruction at the area's top business schools.
None cites any plans to beef up its business ethics course offerings, despite the lapses at the center of the Enron Corp. mess. Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management-which graduated former Enron Chief Financial Officer...
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