{"id":77573,"date":"2025-07-16T01:16:59","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T05:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/world.edu\/?p=77573"},"modified":"2025-07-16T01:16:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T05:16:59","slug":"rethinking-the-mba-character-as-the-educational-foundation-for-future-business-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/world.edu\/rethinking-the-mba-character-as-the-educational-foundation-for-future-business-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"Rethinking the MBA: Character as the educational foundation for future business leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-77574\" src=\"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Rethinking-the-MBA.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Rethinking-the-MBA.png 680w, https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Rethinking-the-MBA-250x131.png 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Programs to help students discern their vocation or calling are gaining prominence\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/press.uchicago.edu\/ucp\/books\/book\/chicago\/P\/bo19658087.html\">in higher education<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gallup.com\/education\/248222\/gallup-bates-purposeful-work-2019.aspx\">2019 Bates\/Gallup poll<\/a>, 80% of college graduates want a sense of purpose from their work. In addition, a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.paulpolman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/MC_Paul-Polman_Net-Positive-Employee-Barometer_Final_web.pdf\">2023 survey<\/a>\u00a0found that 50% of Generation Z and millennial employees in the U.K. and U.S. have resigned from a job because the values of the company did not align with their own.<\/p>\n<p>These sentiments are also found in today\u2019s business school students, as Gen Z is demanding that course content reflect the changes in society, from diversity and inclusion to sustainability and poverty. According to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/3f0ec54d-15b1-4974-8d5d-574f08788ef4\">Financial Times<\/a>, \u201cthere may never have been a more demanding cohort.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And yet, business schools have been slower than other schools to respond, leading to calls ranging from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sup.org\/books\/business\/business-school-and-noble-purpose-market\">transforming business education<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/apr\/27\/bulldoze-the-business-school\">demolishing it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>What are business schools creating?<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Historically, studies have shown that business school applicants have scored higher than their peers on the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.paid.2017.04.030\">dark triad\u201d traits<\/a>\u00a0of narcissism, psychopathy and Machiavellianism. These traits can manifest themselves in a tendency toward cunning, scheming and, at times, unscrupulous behavior.<\/p>\n<p>Over the course of their degree program, other studies have found that business school environments can\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s10551-007-9614-y\">amplify those preexisting tendencies<\/a>\u00a0while enhancing a concern for what others think of them.<\/p>\n<p>And these tendencies stick after graduation. One study examined 9,900 U.S. publicly listed firms and separated the sample by those run by managers who went to business school and those whose managers did not. While they found no discernible difference in sales or profits between the two samples, they found that labor wages were cut 6% over five years at companies run by managers who went to business school, while managers with no business degree shared profits with their workers. The study concludes that this is the result \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3386\/w29874\">of practices and values acquired in business education<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But there are signs that this may be changing.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Questioning value<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Today, many are\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/poetsandquantsforundergrads.com\/students\/diaries-of-a-darkhorse-is-a-business-degree-really-necessary\/\">questioning the value of the MBA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Those who have decided it is worth the high cost either complain of its lack of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1108\/978-1-78635-368-920161016\">rigor, relevance<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.ijme.2021.100531\">critical thinking<\/a>\u00a0or use it merely for access to networks for salary enhancement, treating classroom learning as less important than attending recruiting events and social activities.<\/p>\n<p>Layered onto this uncertain state of affairs, generative artificial intelligence is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/globalfocusmagazine.com\/authoritarianism-and-business-education-the-coming-threat-from-generative-ai\/\">fundamentally altering the education landscape<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/05\/28\/ai-jobs-white-collar-unemployment-anthropic\">threatening future career prospects<\/a>\u00a0and short-circuiting the student\u2019s education by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aacsb.edu\/insights\/articles\/2023\/10\/how-ai-is-reshaping-higher-education\">doing their research and writing for them<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is concerning because of the outsized role that business leaders play in today\u2019s society: allocating capital, developing and deploying new technologies and influencing political and social debates.<\/p>\n<p>At times, this role is a positive one, but not always. Distrust follows that uncertainty.<\/p>\n<p>Only\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/394283\/confidence-institutions-down-average-new-low.aspx\">16% of Americans<\/a>\u00a0had a \u201cgreat deal\u201d or \u201cquite a lot\u201d of confidence in corporations, while\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/stories\/2016\/04\/a-majority-of-millennials-in-the-us-now-reject-capitalism-poll-shows\/#:%7E:text=Writer%2C%20Wonkblog-,In%20an%20apparent%20rejection%20of%20the%20basic%20principles%20of%20the,percent%20said%20they%20support%20it.\">51% of Americans between 18 and 29<\/a>\u00a0hold a dim view of capitalism.<\/p>\n<p>Facing this reality, business educators are beginning to reexamine how to nurture business leaders who view business not only as a means to making money but also as a vehicle in service to society.<\/p>\n<p>Proponents such as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/Excellence-Without-Soul-Liberal-Education\/dp\/1586485016\">Harry Lewis, former dean of Harvard College<\/a>;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/press.princeton.edu\/books\/paperback\/9780691136189\/our-underachieving-colleges\">Derek Bok, former president of Harvard University<\/a>;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/press.princeton.edu\/books\/hardcover\/9780691123639\/a-larger-sense-of-purpose\">Harold Shapiro, former president of Princeton University<\/a>; and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/yalebooks.yale.edu\/book\/9780300143140\/educations-end\/\">Anthony Kronman, former dean of the Yale Law School<\/a>, describe this effort as a return to the original focus of a college education.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Not ethics, but character formation<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Business schools have often included ethics courses in their curriculum, often with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s10551-013-1717-z\">limited success<\/a>. What some schools are experimenting with is character formation.<\/p>\n<p>As part of this experimentation is the development of a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2023\/09\/us-culture-moral-education-formation\/674765\/\">coherent moral culture<\/a>\u00a0that lies within the course curriculum but also within the cocurricular programming, cultural events, seminars and independent studies that shape students\u2019 worldviews; the selection, socialization, training and reward systems for students, staff and faculty; and other aspects that shape students\u2019 formation.<\/p>\n<p>Stanford\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/socialconcerns.nd.edu\/virtues\/magazine-home-spring-2024-2\/an-interview-with-bill-damon\/\">Bill Damon<\/a>, one of the leading scholars on helping students develop a sense of purpose in life, describes a revised role for faculty in this effort, one of creating the fertile conditions for students to find meaning and purpose on their own.<\/p>\n<p>I use this approach in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/webuser.bus.umich.edu\/ajhoff\/teaching_cases\/Management%20as%20a%20Calling%20Course%20Overview%202024.pdf\">my course on vocation discernment in business<\/a>, shifting from a more traditional academic style to one that is more developmental.<\/p>\n<p>This is relational teaching that artificial intelligence cannot do. It involves bringing the whole person into the education process, inspiring hearts as much as engaging heads to form competent leaders who possess character, judgment and wisdom.<\/p>\n<p>It allows an examination of both the how and the why of business, challenging students to consider what kind of business leader they aspire to be and what kind of legacy they wish to establish.<\/p>\n<p>It would mark a return to the original focus of early business schools, which, as Rakesh Khurana, a professor of sociology at Harvard, calls out in his book \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/press.princeton.edu\/books\/paperback\/9780691145877\/from-higher-aims-to-hired-hands?srsltid=AfmBOoqjmfrEVX2rD3ro77_9VVt9TStTc8Mjffg80mdiGyg37E9sSIlz\">From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession<\/a>,\u201d was to train managers in the same vocational way we train doctors \u201cto seek the higher aims of commerce in service to society.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Reshaping business education<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>The good news is that there are emerging exemplars that are seeking to create this kind of curriculum through centers such as Notre Dame University\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/socialconcerns.nd.edu\/\">Institute for Social Concerns<\/a>\u00a0and Bates College\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/purposeful-work\/\">Center for Purposeful Work<\/a>\u00a0and courses such as Stanford University\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lifedesignlab.stanford.edu\/dyl\">Designing Your Life<\/a>\u00a0and the University of Michigan\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketplace.org\/story\/2023\/02\/23\/reshaping-business-school-with-management-as-a-calling\">Management as a Calling<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>These are but a few examples of a growing movement. So, the building blocks are there to draw from. The student demand is waiting to be met. All that is needed is for more business schools to respond.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Author Bio:<\/strong> Andrew J. Hoffman is the Holcim (US) Professor of Sustainable Enterprise, Ross School of Business, School for Environment &#038; Sustainability at the University of Michigan<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Programs to help students discern their vocation or calling are gaining prominence\u00a0in higher education. According to a\u00a02019 Bates\/Gallup poll, 80% of college graduates want a sense of purpose from their work. 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