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73. In B-Schools corporate social responsibility seems to be a growth area

That along with business ethics and sustainable/green business are really encouraged.

Believe it or not, many of the B-school profs I know are fairly enlightened about the problems with unregulated capitalism and the maximization of shareholder value perspective. I earned a masters degree at one B-School and Ph.D. at another and teach at a third. I will never forget my econometrics professor telling the class (I paraphrase): thank god supply-side economics has been proven to be an unrealistic model of economic behavior. Now I can teach about what seems to make sense most of the time."

I know I have a few colleagues who cling to Milton Friedman and the "Freshwater" perspective of economics, but nobody wants to talk to those assholes anyway because they are unpleasant people. Most of us seem to range from the moderate liberal to moderate conservative in terms of politics. Very few like Trump. Very few think that we ought to run the university like a business (except for some of the higher administration but screw them anyway).

You also have to realize that MBA programs are designed to sell to corporations who sponsor/pay for some of their employees to get their MBAs. We have to offer an attractive assortment of courses to them. But to some extent, the faculty still design the curriculum and if we want to emphasize corporate social responsibility or business ethics or sustainable business, we will do so. Doctoral programs are more like traditional Ph.D. programs where the emphasis is on scholarly inquiry.

I can't speak about all disciplines within the B-School, but my discipline (Organizational Behavior) has a very strong empirical foundation that we share to some extent with our brothers and sisters in Industrial/Organizational Psychology and our cousins in social psychology and industrial sociology. We may have a more pro-business bias, but it's not clear that's true of all of us in the field. Our work helps humanize the practice of management and even economics and finance to some extent.

As a liberal I can say that I have been comfortable in my B-School, finding some kindred spirits and other thoughtful and concerned faculty who care about many of the same things that I do. I realize that different B-Schools may not be as welcoming as mine, but I like to think that they are not nearly as monolithically far right as many here seem to believe.