num_pages: 208
description: When business government and other professions fail to meet their responsibilities it is most often not from an inadequacy of tools techniques and theory but from an absence of vision and a failure of leadership that saps all sense of individual or organizational purpose and responsibility. To address this concern management education must be more than the transfer of skills. It should be a moral endeavor a passing-on from one generation to the next of a kind of wisdom about responsible moral commitment in complex contexts. Faculty at professional schools have an opportunity and a responsibility to help students connect their capacity for high achievement to a sense of purpose and a set of principles. This book is an explanation of how one business school is trying to place leadership ethics and corporate responsibility at the center of its mission. It is a call to rebalance the educational trilogy of values knowledge and skills. Can Ethics Be Taught? traces the evolution strategy and implementation of the pathbreaking Leadership Ethics and Corporate Responsibility program at the Harvard Business School. It describes in detail the origins of the initiative for this program the sophisticated research that went into the approach timing and appropriate interventions for working with students and faculty as well as the design of the program strategy itself. The accomplishments of this program have been substantial; and the lessons drawn from the experience of the Harvard Business School can prove instructive to other professional schools-in such fields as management public administration and law-and to corporate leaders as they design and implement their own programs on leadership ethics and responsibility.
language: English
title: Can Ethics Be Taught?: Perspectives, Challenges, and Approaches at the Harvard Business School
publisher: Harvard Business Review Press