University of Cambridge professor Chris Marquis on how business schools are creating a leadership cohort that doubles down on flawed ideas.
I have taught in business schools for over 20 years, at Harvard, Cornell and Cambridge. While some students appear to care only about their future compensation, I have met many with nobler goals: engineers who want to commercialize clean energy, physicians determined to fix the health care system, nonprofit leaders who have watched good missions fail for want of good management.
These students enroll hoping to learn what business schools say they teach: how to manage people, how to allocate capital and resources and how to make the world a better place through leadership. But I’ve come to see how the institution can reshape the worldviews of those who enter it, often undermining the very ambitions that brought them there.
Opinion | I Teach at a Business School. It’s Time to Shut Them Down.nytimes.comStudents come in with noble intentions and leave with flawed expertise.