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This paper accepts as given that business students want to get ahead. It criticizes business schools for their failure to reduce the incongruence between doing what is right and doing what it takes to get ahead. Because of this failure business school graduates carry negative ideas, attitudes and behaviors vis-à-vis social responsibility from business schools into the business world. Recommendations are made for increasing the social responsibility of business schools.
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Robert H. Schwartz is an Associate Professor of Management and Coordinator of the Health Care Administration Program at the University of Toledo. He is the author of Coping With Unbalanced Information About Decision Making Influence For Nurses, Hospital and Health Services Administration (Winter, 1990), and of other papers pertaining to health administration and career choice.
Sami Kassem is Professor of Management at the University of Toledo.
Dean Ludwig is Assistant Professor of Management at the University of Toledo.
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Schwartz, R.H., Kassem, S. & Ludwig, D. The role of business schools in managing the incongruence between doing what is right and doing what it takes to get ahead. J Bus Ethics 10, 465–469 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00382830
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00382830