rocketvarman

Thanks members for multiple views. Let me set some things clear. 1) Firstly my post does not indicate that I believe business is evil. If anyone thinks that, he or she is mistaken or it is perhaps a symptom of being part of this forum for too long and acting like a self declared czar of PhD admissions. 2) Secondly I don't need to speak your language. It seems to me that the only language (having gathered this from multiple posts and threads) that seems acceptable to many threads is a language spoken by the 'experts'. This is terrible for a forum where multiple views must be encouraged even if they cant be expressed in grammatically correct English. 3) Thirdly, as HorsesinVA and Steve have mentioned, there is a great danger. If we only have aims of publishing in top journals and working at Ivy League schools and earning great salaries and writing books, business professors are going to always be just that and nothing more. We are going to made fun of by MBA and Undergraduate students and sneered at by PhD students and hated by our colleagues. Of course if we just want to publish and write books then it doesn't matter. 4) Thirdly with respect to Jindal, I have been to Jindal Nagar t (a place very close to where I did my MBA and where the plants of the Jindal Group are located) as part of a Labour Relations project three years ago. If you go there, try and breathe the air and tell me there is no human rights abuse. Also talk to a contract miner who hasn't been paid for 4 months. I don't need a Caravan magazine (which did a very kind profile of OP Jindal) or the NY times or the AMJ to provide me that information to make it credible. Yes with reference to Lynn Stout my credible source is the internet. My intention was to get some views on things we think about when we have hard ethical or moral dilemmas, so let me provide my personal views even if it is absolutely insignificant to most members of this forum.I would certainly try and be an activist as much as I can if I were to find out something 'sinister' about the college or my program. If I were teaching and an unethical businessman came to get my views, I would tell him to change. Not because it makes business sense because its the sensible thing to do. We seem to have lost our innocence and idealism. The world is not going to change much unless we who will teach business to those who will run the world change.But again, we are all entitled to act or not act.

As future PhD students and Professors I am interested in getting some opinions on whether we as a community would join and teach at places that are not so conscientious as they claim to be? Are we willing to overlook serious ethical breaches before joining a PhD program or teaching at a University. Would you join UCLA? Lynn Stout left UCLA to join Cornell as she was unhappy about UCLA receiving money from a rogue trader named Lowell Milken. Would you join University of Texas at Dallas now renamed the Navin Jindal School. The man and his company, the OP Jindal group has had a history of human rights and environmental abuses in India. Should we as a community slowly begin to act as activists? Or should we remain mute? These are merely two examples that come to mind. I am pretty certain that the program I am joining will also have some issues, just that I havent been able to find any.Thoughts welcome!