Content written by John Warner and published by Inside Higher Ed.
MBA News Digest Comment: The comments to this article are very enlightening.
Extracted Content: Recently, I wrote about the empty rhetoric of educating students for “the demands of the 21stcentury,” but perhaps there is one thing we can put under this banner that will be useful, a curriculum that helps these folks understand what makes them happy, as opposed to what will merely make them rich.
My sympathy for the unhappy Harvard M.B.A.’s would go further if their kind weren’t neck deep in schemes that are making the world demonstrably worse.
Perhaps you’ve been reading of the Sackler family in the news lately, the folks behind Purdue Pharma whose marketing of painkillers made them rich beyond imagining, while leaving millions of Americans addicted to their drugs destroying families, towns, entire regions.