ABSTRACT
We are in the middle of a sea change in ethics education at business schools, for good and ill. At the same time that more undergraduate and MBA programmes are offering required courses in business ethics (or, more broadly, corporate social responsibility, corporate citizenship, sustainability, business and society), 2 these same MBA programmes are under increasing pressure to reduce the length of their programmes and, in particular, to condense the core curriculum in order to allow for more specialisation and elective choice. The economic pressures of the global financial crisis have made it more difficult for students to justify the opportunity costs of a two-year MBA degree, especially when a lucrative job may not be waiting for them at the end of that period. 3
