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Is it possible to teach ethics to business school students?

Published: October 28 2009 02:00 | Last updated: October 28 2009 02:00

THE PROBLEM

Last week Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of The Black Swan , said: "I don't believe that ethics can be taught in class." He was speaking after the arrest of Raj Rajaratnam, the head of hedge fund Galleon Group, and two other alumni of his MBA class at Wharton. Have business schools paid enough attention to ethical questions? Or are ethics a personal matter?

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