Manufacturing Morals, 9780226092478
Hardcover
Making unprecedented use of his position as a Harvard Business School faculty member, this title takes readers inside HBS in order to draw vivid parallels between the socialization of faculty and of students. It reveals the role of silence and ambiguity in HBS’ process of codifying morals and business values.

Manufacturing Morals

The Values of Silence in Business School Education

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  • Hardcover

    248 pages

  • Release Date

    27 August 2013

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Summary

Corporate accountability is never far from the front page, and as one of the world’s most elite business schools, Harvard Business School trains many of the future leaders of Fortune 500 companies. But how does HBS formally and informally ensure faculty and students embrace proper business standards? Relying on his first-hand experience as a Harvard Business School faculty member, Michel Anteby takes readers inside HBS in order to draw vivid parallels between the socialization of faculty and…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780226092478
ISBN-10:022609247X
Author:Michel Anteby
Publisher:The University of Chicago Press
Imprint:University of Chicago Press
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:248
Release Date:27 August 2013
Weight:454g
Dimensions:23mm x 16mm x 2mm
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Critics Review

“In this first-rate organizational ethnography, Michel Anteby describes the ethos of a premier institution and how it shapes the worldviews and moral rules-in-use of its faculty, staff, and students.” -Robert Jackall, author of Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers “Michel Anteby’s spare but well-chosen words offer an up-close and personal look at the inner workings of what many call the West Point of American capitalism…. Manufacturing Morals is a deft reimagining of organizational silence as sometimes a message, a provocation, a comfort, or an excuse.” -John Van Maanen, MIT”

About The Author

Michel Anteby

Michel Anteby is associate professor and the Marvin Bower fellow in the organizational behavior unit at Harvard Business School. He is the author of Moral Gray Zones: Side Productions, Identity, and Regulation in an Aeronautic Plant.

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