DOES ETHICS INSTRUCTION IN COLLEGE DO ANY GOOD? Nitin Nohria, new dean of the Harvard Business School: Business itself is at an inflection point. Society's trust in business has certainly been shaken. As a result, some of society's trust in business education has been shaken as well. My hope at Harvard Business School is to restore that trust in business and business education. What we have to ask ourselves as business leaders and as a school is what can we do to restore this trust that has been lost so widely. I believe this trust can be repaired. Not all of this is about ethics. It's a broader thing. There's something about the way that we began to run business that made the pursuit of short-term profit maximization more important than creating long-term sustainable businesses. What are the ethical implications of the following interpretations? Ethics instruction in college is probably a waste of time because students' value systems solidify earlier in life. What percent of students do you think are fundamentally honest, trustworthy, and ethical, and what percent are fundamentally dishonest, untrustworthy, and unethical?

DOES ETHICS INSTRUCTION IN COLLEGE DO ANY GOOD? Nitin Nohria, new dean of the Harvard Business School: Business itself is at an inflection point. Society's trust in business has certainly been shaken. As a result, some of society's trust in business education has been shaken as well. My hope at Harvard Business School is to restore that trust in business and business education. What we have to ask ourselves as business leaders and as a school is what can we do to restore this trust that has been lost so widely. I believe this trust can be repaired. Not all of this is about ethics. It's a broader thing. There's something about the way that we began to run business that made the pursuit of short-term profit maximization more important than creating long-term sustainable businesses. What are the ethical implications of the following interpretations? Ethics instruction in college is probably a waste of time because students' value systems solidify earlier in life. What percent of students do you think are fundamentally honest, trustworthy, and ethical, and what percent are fundamentally dishonest, untrustworthy, and unethical?