Tuesday, November 14, 2006

Business Ethics Curriculum Builds Steam Among Colleges


Call it an effect of white-collar crime, increased sense of community or plain old idealism, but there’s no question that the field of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and business ethics is a rapidly growing part of the average MBA student’s curriculum.

MBA programs in Nashville are no exception. For example, students entering Vanderbilt University’s Owen Graduate School of Management this year were required, for the first time, to take a corporate ethics course as part of their orientation.

Belmont University students in the Jack C. Massey Graduate School of Business are required to take at least one course on business ethics, in addition to a mandatory CSR component of every class.

See full Article.