AACSB’s failures in guarding the ethical henhouse of business schools
Richard J Arend
Abstract:This essay is written to provoke a reaction against the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. When a business school’s administration is criminally convicted of conspiracy to commit fraud and yet it retains its accreditations, something is wrong. Accreditors expect that we enforce ethical standards like “no cheating” on our students but do not enforce those standards on deans, even in cases of publicly-admitted years-long submissions of misrepresentative rankings data. That inconsistency is no… Show more
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