June 23, 2006
Agents of Fortunes
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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