Raising the concept of ethics.(Viewpoint)

Crain's New York Business, June, 2004 by Clowes, Mike

Byline: Mike Clowes Many leading business schools have either instituted or revamped ethics courses for master of business administration candidates in response to the corporate scandals that have come to light in the past five years. No doubt they hope these courses will head off future ethical failures.

I suspect, however, that even had these courses been emphasized 20 years ago, and all the executives now on trial for financial shenanigans had taken and passed them, many, if not most, of the scandals still would have occurred. Call me a pessimist, but I think the ethics courses will be only modestly successful in reducing cheating by corporate management. That's because if people don't have a solid ethical base before they get to graduate school,...

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