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MBA Students Show Eagerness to Slice through Today's Ethical Thickets.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, July, 2002
The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jul. 29--When the incoming class of Harvard Business School meets for get-to-know-you drinks, the talk is usually of prospects, past jobs, shared connections. But this year there was a new topic: corporate ethics problems.
In many ways, this is the darkest time in years for American business, rocked by financial scandals and stock market losses. At Bentley College in Waltham, aspiring MBAs are studying risk management this summer under scrolling stock prices that flash past in neon red, showing loss after loss -- numbers that were colored good-times green not long ago.
But if you think the bad news has soured the mood of business students, think again.
"In my mind, it's the...
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