ABSTRACT
Business ethics is a burgeoning field of study and practice with vibrant academic and practitioner communities. Due to a combination of pioneering leaders in business and academe, many resources are currently being expended to understand and manage ethics in business. While discussions of trade, wealth, or the vocation of commerce have been around for millennia, the first attempt at formal, academic discussion of business ethics in the United States began with the introduction of business schools in the late 1800s and early 1900s. As we discuss business ethics education, it is important to distinguish between education performed in an academic setting and ethics education done within corporations. Nearly half of the ethics training programs included lectures as the teaching approach. A former ethics educator at the Harvard Business School, Gentile underwent a crisis of conscience while teaching ethics, wondering if her efforts were doing any good in making the business world a more ethical place.
