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Fashioning Socially Responsible Leaders in Business SchoolBy Sarah Clarkcraig.friesen@careertrainingdirectory.com Career Training Directory Columnist Recent corporate scandals on Wall Street threaten to permanently weaken already shaky investor confidence. Between the conviction of former WorldCom chief, Bernard Ebbers, and criminal charges levied against former Enron chief executive Kenneth Lay, it's not surprising that ethics research and curriculum is getting more attention at some of the nation's top business schools.
Leading MBA programs around the country are incorporating ethics and corporate responsibility issues into their curriculum and research. Here's a sampling of some of the activities going on around business schools to equip a new generation of executives with a moral compass and social conscience. MBA ResearchOne of the most reputable business schools in the country, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, boasts one of the most well-known ethics research centers in America, the Zicklin Center for Business and Ethics Research. Established in 1997, the Zicklin Center's research team has touched on a variety of hot-button corporate ethics topics from insider trading and insurance fraud to undesirable employee deviance (such as theft) and client disclosure and labor rights.More recently, the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley established the Center for Responsible Business. The Center was created in part to "create a more sustainable, ethical, and socially responsible society," reads its web site, through research and outreach to constituents of the business community. MBA CourseworkHarvard Business School is doing its part to stem the tide of corporate malfeasance by offering courses on social and environmental issues. As part of their core curriculum, all MBA students take a course titled Leadership and Corporate Accountability, which examines legal, ethical, and economic responsibilities of corporate leaders.Given the growing field of biotechnology and ethical dilemmas stemming from biotech research, Stanford University's MBA program offers a course in the ethics of biotechnology. Stanford also offers elective courses in business ethics and corporate social responsibility. Social EntrepreneurshipAdditionally, many top business schools offer instruction on social entrepreneurship, an emerging area of business that looks at ways to make a profit by promoting or advancing a social cause. For example, cosmetics company Avon promoted its brand to women through high-profile breast cancer awareness campaigns.MBA programs are doing more to promote responsible corporate behavior -- do your part by enrolling in a business program and preparing to become one of America's next generation of admired corporate leaders. About the AuthorSarah Clark is a freelance writer based in Arlington, Virginia.Sources:
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