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Jeffrey A. Miller
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In the summer of 2002, Congress passed new legislation, with more stringent requirements for corporate reporting of financial information. The level of attention and concern given to issues of corporate accountability has increased significantly, along with corresponding employment opportunities for those equipped to address these matters. With all of this in the works, one would expect that colleges and universities would be positioning themselves to train ethical leaders and provide a dependable supply to fulfill this commonly acknowledged need. However, individuals having those expectations are likely to be disappointed. Throughout the 1990′s and continuing to this day, institutes of higher learning in the United States have been and are dropping business ethics courses from their MBA programs. In some cases, ethics courses have been dropped from the requirements list, while at other schools, they are being dropped altogether. Now, more than ever, we need to include ethics in the business curriculum.

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