ABSTRACT
Bob Giacalone and Mark Promislo argue that through the use of 'normal' business school language, modeling, and metrics, the authors perpetuate 'broken' student perspectives and behaviors with respect to ethics. The essential thesis from Broken When Entering is that not only are students entering the b-schools soundly unequipped for ethical reasoning and moral decision making, the authors faculty can make it much worse by the language they use and the norms they perpetuate. The materialism that underlies our entire cultural values set and subsequent vocabulary pervades our students' holistic sense of what business is and does, and skews their expectations about their role in the business world. In every organizational role people have had, whether as a corporate manager or business owner, as a researcher or as a consultant, as a teacher or community organization board member, the scene tends to be the same.
