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Business education is facing growing scrutiny from within as students increasingly seek more than just career advancement.
Polling data shows they also want to discover a sense of purpose. Yet business schools, long seen as producing profit-driven leaders, have been slow to adapt.
Critics say the traditional Master of Business Administration program emphasizes status and salaries over substance, and research suggests it may even foster self-interested behaviors. And while ethics courses have been standard, they haven’t led to lasting change.
University of Michigan professor Andrew Hoffman shares how some educators are reimagining business education to emphasize character formation, purpose and service to society.
He makes the case that this shift holds the potential to bring business education back to its original intent: cultivating leaders with both competence and conscience.
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Questions about the role of business education have led to introspection among business school leaders and researchers.
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Andrew J. Hoffman, University of Michigan
Business school applicants rate high on measures of narcissism and psychopathy. A scholar argues that character education could help change that.
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Environment + Energy
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Ivis García, Texas A&M University; Jaimie Hicks Masterson, Texas A&M University; Shannon Van Zandt, Texas A&M University
There are ways the state could help these communities, as a team of disaster planning specialists explains.
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Science + Technology
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Rebecca McClain, The Ohio State University; Adam Leroy, The Ohio State University
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Raven Garvey, University of Michigan; Agnit Mukhopadhyay, University of Michigan; Sanja Panovska, GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences
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International
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Garret Martin, American University School of International Service
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Education
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Matthew J. Mayhew, The Ohio State University; Hind Haddad, The Ohio State University; Renee L. Bowling, The Ohio State University
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Politics + Society
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Michael J. Socolow, University of Maine
Will costly settlements over news stories the president sued about influence network journalists when deciding whether to pursue investigative stories involving the Trump administration?
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Daniel Tichenor, University of Oregon
A 1952 law that President Harry S. Truman opposed, calling it a step backward, now underpins many actions by the Trump administration against noncitizens in the US.
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Health + Medicine
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Simon F. Haeder, Texas A&M University
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