ABSTRACT
Greek mythology makes it possible to understand the Stockholm School of Economics and other contemporary elite business schools and not only through small statues above their entrance gates. The behavior that students acquire, unless already acquired at an earlier stage, mirrors that of Hermes, functioning on the basis of the social status that awaits them: trickery, or if one prefers, entrepreneurship but also eloquence and an ability to create relationships – also one of Hermes’s hallmarks as a magician. The phenomenon of business schools can also be seen as something that makes trickery seems like a glorious thing, with all that it entails in terms of a well-developed and even exemplary social, communicative, and aesthetic ability. A business school can also be understood in terms of what Hermes embodied, namely as an agora enabling economic and social exchange between people, with the buildings as his temples.
