Global Jesuit Dialog on Business Ethics
This blog features dialog among faculty and deans at Jesuit business schools around the world. Topics include what business ethics means in developed and developing societies and how Jesuit and Catholic business schools are educating men and women for responsible careers in business.
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Men and Women for Others
Friday, Jul. 11, 2008
at 2:39 PM
QUESTION FOR AUGUST 2008
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE A MAN OR WOMAN "FOR OTHERS" IN A BUSINESS CAREER IN YOUR COUNTRY?
Initial response:
Prof. Kirk Hanson, Santa Clara University, USA:
At Santa Clara University and at other Jesuit business schools in the USA, there is a strong sense that graduates will be directly engaged in global business operations, perhaps working in developing countries for part of their careers. They expect to be managing projects and coordinating work with employees in multiple countries. As many of our MBAs are ethnic Chinese or Indian, many expect to play a role in business development in their countries of origin. To be a "man or woman for others," our graduates will have to learn ways to make their company's operations and economic development work for the local people in these developing countries. Most of all, they need to make the economy work for the poor and marginalized. They will have to decide that their personal identity and purpose includes a commitment to the economic and social development of countries in which they work. We probably do far too little to equip our students to understand how to do that effectively. We probably talk too little about the spiritual and "mission" aspects of a business career
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