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Masters in Business

In this week's Assignment Ed Butler asks what role business schools played in last year's financial crisis.

What role did the business schools play in last year's financial crisis? In this week's edition of Assignment, Ed Butler investigates whether, as the chair of Harvard's MBA programme insists, the schools were guilty only of teaching a deficient assessment of risk in the business world, or whether there had been a more fundamental fault. Some inside the system tell Assignment that there had been a growing disconnect between the schools and society, with insufficient attention being paid to the ethics of the business world, and the sole focus of the programmes being on maximising shareholder value and personal enrichment.

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25 minutes

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Sun 13 Sep 2009 09:05GMT

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  • Thu 10 Sep 2009 08:05GMT
  • Thu 10 Sep 2009 12:05GMT
  • Thu 10 Sep 2009 19:05GMT
  • Fri 11 Sep 2009 00:05GMT
  • Sun 13 Sep 2009 09:05GMT

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