“Eventually we have to ask if professors such as Dean Hubbard do the things that they are exposed to be doing in the film, do we want such people to be the deans of our business school, where we teach 21st-century ethics and responsibility courses?” Yu asked.
“No one is holy here,” she added. “We have to think whom do we want [at Columbia], not just bend to authority because people happen to be the dean.”
A grad student at Columbia University, a member of the Student Affairs Committee of the Faculty Senate, reviews the Business School dean’s performance in Inside Job. She doesn’t like it.
April 15th, 2011 at 3:11PM
In addition to any ethical issues involving Dean Hubbard…in 2006, he published a Financial Times article responding to the critique of management education which has been made by people like Bennis, Mintzberg, and O’Toole. I don’t think he laid a glove on them, and indeed his response seemed to me to be pretty simplistic. My post on this is here.