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Why Some M.B.A.s Are Reading Plato
By Melissa Korn
Most business-school students are gunning for jobs in banking, consulting or technology. So what are they doing reading Plato?
The philosophy department is invading the M.B.A. program—at least at a handful of schools where the legacy of the global financial crisis has sparked efforts to train business students to think beyond the bottom line. Courses like “Why Capitalism?” and “Thinking about Thinking,” and readings by Marx and Kant, give students a break from Excel spreadsheets and push them to ponder business in a broader context, schools say.
