Business School and the Noble Purpose of the Market explains how MBA students, faculty, administrators, and other stakeholders can think differently about reforming capitalism as taught in business schools and restoring its noble purpose for the 21st century.
Challenging future business leaders to think of their career as a calling or vocation, one that is in service to society. Its message is for current and prospective students, business leaders thinking anew about the role of business in society, and the business educators who train all these people.
Scholarship rarely moves very far beyond the walls of the academy and is certainly not accessing the primarily civic spaces it needs to reach in order to mitigate truth corruption. In this brief but compelling book, Hoffman draws upon existing literature and personal experience to bring attention to the problem of academic insularity—where it comes from and where, if left to grow unchecked, it will go—and argues for the emergence of a more publicly and politically engaged scholar.
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