This paper examines the gap between moral purpose and moral performance as a problem created in part by the alienation of spirituality from civic life. This is a nation of privatized morality that places corporate and civic leaders in a labyrinth of uncertainty when they try to establish a moral...
Thanks to strengthened financial reporting and governance laws, a growing number of corporate executives in the United States have exchanged pinstripes for jail stripes. It makes the public wonder about just what those fancy business schools are teaching up-and-coming leaders. In fact, many business programs feature...
What can Sir Thomas More and Sophocles teach tomorrow's business leaders? Harvard Business School's Sandra Sucher explains how she uses great literature to teach moral leadership. by BNET staff
One of the two classes we're taking this session is Leadership. I have to admit, I've been skeptical from the start. Can you really learn how to be a leader in the classroom? It's not that I thought the class would be worthless, but the topic is...
Using Great Literature to Teach Business EthicsUsing Great Literature to Teach Business EthicsEvery school should incorporate Business Ethics as its core curriculum. Every course should have intertwined within its network of books, scenarios, simulations, some facet of ethical training. It is not enough to provide a class specifically designed to...
WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Trent Lott's most recent celebration of Strom Thurmond's blatantly segregationist 1948 presidential campaign -- in which he said Americans would now be better off if the country had embraced a segregationist presidenWASHINGTON, Dec. 11 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Trent Lott's most recent celebration of Strom...