To the OP, you do realize the author has an agenda including selling his two books mentioned in the article (one is even called “Ducking Managment” but with an “F” ( tried to quote it from article but CC doesn’t allow that type of language).
The article and author seem a little self serving and disingenuous especially when working for 20 years at said B-schools.
@socaldad2002 Sorry if the article ruffled your feathers. I, of course, read the article and noted that he has a book to sell (who doesn’t these days?). The title of the article, “Why we should bulldoze business schools”, is extreme, probably to catch the reader’s attention, but I think the fact that he has worked in business schools for 20 years means he might have some insight. He has also probably noticed shifts in the schools he has taught over two decades. Ostensibly, universities are supposed to edify and because of that there is nothing wrong with casting a critical eye to business schools IMO.
Maybe kids would worry less about making top dollar if college didn’t cost $250,000…
Lots of colleges don’t cost $250,000.
The author is not attacking ethics, he’s attacking capitalism. There’s unethical people in every industry and every organization. If this is really about ethics, wouldn’t it be ethical to do an analysis of other industries and show that business is unethical as he claims? Singling out one industry while ignoring all others is inherently unethical.
Also, what the heck is so incredibly immoral about making money? It’s a fact of life that’s stood the test of time for thousands of years. Every civilized nation has used it in every age in history for every era worth of recorded human history. Now it’s suddenly evil because a doofus with a PhD says there’s too many greedy people? If he wants to find a plot of land, make his own tools, grow his own food and wear animal skin so he doesn’t have to give money to greedy people, that’s fine with me. I prefer to live in a civilized society.