MBA turns idealists to pragmatists

In the March 2008 edition of the Academy of Management Learning and Education, Peter Navarro reported a recent web-based survey of the MBA core curricula of top-50 ranked US business schools (e.g., Harvard, Stanford, Yale, Kellogg, Sloan) which highlighted, among others, that in a post-Enron world business schools can and should contribute to the development of ethical workplaces. Unfortunately, a 2004 survey-based study found that:

"...an MBA education doesn't build moral character but actually tears it down--turning incoming idealist students into myopic share price maximizers within the space of two short years" (Navarro, 2008, p. 110).