There’s a negative stereotype surrounding business these days that really must be purged from American business; things that business men and business students do like hacking into school files that should not be corrupting today’s already-struggling economy.
The terms “family man” and “business man” are coined as polar opposites, as if a professional career means the abandonment of other core values in societal human beings. Like the horror scenes straight out of The Devil Wears Prada, business forces us to choose between: our friends and our job; our professional progress and our family; our career success and our morals.
But this isn’t the way business has to be. Ethical business degrees, particularly ethical MBA programs, are cropping up from the crevices of our colleges and universities to bring the best of both worlds under one umbrella. Through these “ethical MBAs,” business professionals may establish fruitful careers on top of a foundation of education that interweaves ethics into each and every class, instead of that one estranged ethics course that was jam-packed into the General Eds.
The question becomes, then: how do these ethical business degrees hold up to the actual wear-and-tear of the business world?
