Only 25 per cent of top schools teach ethics

Filed in archive Ethics by leon on February 6, 2007

So how many of the top business schools teach ethics?

A study has found that only one in four of the world's top 50 global MBA programs (as rated by the Financial Times in their 2006 Global MBA rankings) required students to study as ethics as a stand-alone course. True, the evidence suggests it could be a five-fold increase since 1988 but it's still low.

About half integrated ethics, sustainability and corporate social responsibility into their program.

More focus on ethics in business schools might not be the answer per se to fixing corporate fraud and skullduggery. But it would help. And clearly, there's some way to go.

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Response from: Steven Milne (02/13/07 6:14am)

Ethics is a broad topic. I just blogged about increases in environmentalism on MBA courses. I suspect this is driven by the increased importance of emmissions trading in the boardroom, more than ethics.
We need financial considerations for all other ethical aspects to drive them quickly. Somehow I can't see an equiv. of emmissions quota trading coming anytime soon for the issues you raise!

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How many of the world’s top business schools teach ethics? Just one in four.

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How many of the world�s top business schools teach ethics? Just one in four.