By Nathaniel Luce
Publication: NASHVILLE BUSINESS JOURNAL
About 70 MBA students from Vanderbilt University gathered last week to watch actors from the Tennessee Repertory Theatre perform excerpts from “Glengarry Glen Ross,” a raw Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy about two days in the lives of four real estate agents desperate to succeed in a cut-throat corporate environment. Vanderbilt’s Owen Graduate School of Management, Belmont University’s Jack C. Massey Graduate School of Business and Lipscomb’s business college all require business ethics classes for MBA students. But the issues of the day are giving the schools an unprecedented opportunity to address the issue in new ways, says BART VICTOR, professor of moral leadership at Vanderbilt. “We’re seeing a fundamental shift and change happen before our eyes,” Victor says. “We’re witnessing the direct engagement of the democratic system in business. It’s painful and difficult, but the relationship between business and democracy is changing. We are going to spend a very long time unwinding all of this.”
