June 23, 2006

Agents of Fortunes

By KATHERINE MANGAN

Scholars clash over whether an emphasis on maximum shareholder profit in business education is to blame for corporate malfeasance

In the movie Wall Street, a ruthless and corrupt corporate raider named Gordon Gekko delivers an impassioned speech to a paper company's stockholders that outlines the freewheeling philosophy that has made him rich.

"The point is, ladies and gentlemen, that greed, for lack of a better word, is good," he says. "Greed is right. Greed works ... and

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