Joel M. Podolny
The way business schools today compete leads students to ask, “What can I do to make the most money?” and the manner in which faculty members teach allows students to regard the moral consequences of their actions as mere afterthoughts.
Content: Quotation | Author: Joel M. Podolny | Source: The Guardian | Subject: MBA Related
Martin Parker
The sort of world that is being produced by the market managerialism that the business school sells is not a pleasant one. It’s a sort of utopia for the wealthy and powerful, a group that the students are encouraged to imagine themselves joining, but such privilege is bought at a very high cost, resulting in environmental catastrophe, resource wars and forced migration, inequality within and … [ Read more ]
Content: Quotation | Author: Martin Parker | Source: The Guardian | Subjects: Capitalism, Economics, MBA Related
Martin Parker
Within the business school, capitalism is assumed to be the end of history, an economic model that has trumped all the others, and is now taught as science, rather than ideology.
Content: Quotation | Author: Martin Parker | Source: The Guardian | Subjects: Capitalism, Economics, MBA Related
Martin Parker
The problem is that business ethics and corporate social responsibility are subjects used as window dressing in the marketing of the business school, and as a fig leaf to cover the conscience of B-school deans – as if talking about ethics and responsibility were the same as doing something about it. They almost never systematically address the simple idea that since current social and economic … [ Read more ]
Content: Quotation | Author: Martin Parker | Source: The Guardian | Subjects: Ethics, MBA Related, Social Responsibility (ESG)
Martin Parker
Despite its use of the word, human resource management is not particularly interested in what it is like to be a human being. Its object of interest are categories – women, ethnic minorities, the underperforming employee – and their relationship to the functioning of the organization.
Content: Quotation | Author: Martin Parker | Source: The Guardian | Subject: Human Resources
Martin Parker
In the business school, both the explicit and hidden curriculums sing the same song. The things taught and the way that they are taught generally mean that the virtues of capitalist market managerialism are told and sold as if there were no other ways of seeing the world. […] This combination of ideology and technocracy is what has made the business school into such an … [ Read more ]
Content: Quotation | Author: Martin Parker | Source: The Guardian | Subjects: Capitalism, Economics, MBA Related
Why We Should Bulldoze the Business School
There are 13,000 business schools on Earth. That’s 13,000 too many. And I should know – I’ve taught in them for 20 years.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Martin Parker | Source: The Guardian | Subjects: About the MBA Degree, MBA Related, Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources, Prospective
The Inside Story of Facebook’s Biggest Setback
The social network had a grand plan to connect millions of Indians to the internet. Here’s how it all went wrong.
Content: Case Study | Author: Rahul Bhatia | Source: The Guardian | Subjects: Miscellaneous, Social Responsibility (ESG) | Company: Facebook