"It’s easy to see, then, why business schools continue to insist on fiction as the perfect tool for teaching empathy in the corporate world."

Better Management Through Belles Lettres

Literature at the B-school

MERVE EMRE

"It’s easy to see, then, why business schools continue to insist on fiction as the perfect tool for teaching empathy in the corporate world. The imaginative excursions into the minds of others, the invitation to identify with those who are not like us, the whole specter of make-believe—this emphasis on corporate humanism helps shore up the flailing business of management education at a moment when it is no longer necessary, not when the real money comes from starting your own hedge fund or designing a new social networking app. The “moral leader” is the perfect counterpoint to the figure of the finance drone or socially bumbling tech CEO, who responds so predictably to financial incentives that he retains no sense of individual personhood, no sense of right or wrong."