Character added to the core competencies

By Augusta Dwyer. Since the 1950s, the job of business schools has been straightforward – prepare graduates to enter a world where profit is the main goal of any business and maximizing investor returns is the only legitimate and legal role. But that philosophy is evolving and expanding. Social corporate responsibility has been added to the business mix in the past decade or so and the greed-fed 2008 financial meltdown has prodded business educators to look at the character of the grads they are turning out. Read more...