MBAs Get Schooled in Ethics: Business schools respond to the crisis by changing their curriculums. But are they just paying lip service?

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ROD KRAMER THOUGHT it was going to be just another dinner at the Stanford Executive Program last summer. An affable, popular professor at the business school, he had given his usual talks on influence and persuasion in the realms of politics and business. Then came the wrap-up social event. But the wife of an important corporate executive-"with the help of some wine," as Kramer recalls-lit into him "for not teaching morality to MBA students." That failure, she told him and then told him some more, was the cause of the global financial meltdown. It was an illustration, says Kramer, currently a visiting professor at Harvard's Kennedy School, of how much "disenchantment" there is about MBAs these days.