Business School 2.0 : Education Beyond Boundaries

Thanks Sudeep for your support.

Its about incorporation the social and environment agendas with Business agenda. Business itself is a means to achieve the strategic goals for collective good of society and environment . To many people have got involved in the means and forgot the real strategic goals . Education beyond boundaries , is where the boundaries of thoughts are eliminated to create a right balance between business and society.  

Its nice to see education management changing the way it is and as the perception of organizations change towards the students who come out of institutions, as the credibility of the students is not just their degrees anymore so this is good step Joydip.......

When medical doctors take the Hippocratic oath, they pledge first to do no harm to their patients. 

On June 3rd more than 400 students graduating from Harvard Business School took an oath amounting to much the same thing. At an unofficial ceremony the day before they received their MBAs, the students promised they would, among other things, “serve the greater good”, “act with the utmost integrity” and guard against “decisions and behavior that advance my own narrow ambitions, but harm the enterprise and the societies it serves.”

The student oath is part of a larger effort to turn management from a trade into a profession—a crusade that Messrs Khurana and Nohria proposed in a much-discussed article last October in the Harvard Business Review. When the business school was founded in 1908, the goal was to create something along the lines of Harvard’s medical and law schools. But the mission was soon abandoned, not least because there was no agreement about how managers should behave.

A set of shared values is one of the defining features of a profession. Lawyers and doctors have their own codes, but business-school professors tend to embrace Milton Friedman’s claim that the only responsibility of business is to maximize profits. They have told their students that as managers their sole mission should be increasing shareholder value. 

It may seem ridiculous that students who have spent over $100,000 on two years of study in an effort to get very rich are now so keen to rebrand themselves as virtuous. Such naivety, if that is what it is, will not survive long beyond the university’s walls. But the students may just be putting their marketing lessons into practice. They are entering the worst job market for graduating MBAs in decades. Many see non-profit and government jobs as their best bet. So embracing the “values agenda” could prove useful.

What is ISB&Ts "Education Beyond Boundaries" initiative all about? Are your trying to emulate the "Doctors Without Borders"?

If that's what you wish to do, kudos to you. It's a worth cause.