Do MBA Schools Teach Unethical Business Practices?
The MBA course which epitomized the corporate business culture I later observed in my management career was Collective Bargaining, offered in the UW Graduate School of Business and taught by a highly respected senior professor, whom I will call Richard Wildon, Ph.D. Professor Wildon combined lecture, library research and simulated labor negotiation cases to present the course materials. As an MHA candidate, I was the only “outsider” in one MBA Collective Bargaining section. Our Collective Bargaining class was divided into paired negotiation groups. My group included a “City” team and its counterpart, the “Police” negotiating team. Students in other groups assumed parallel roles in manufacturing, construction, public school systems, etc. Professor Wildon emphasized that collective bargaining agreements were rigidly based on precedent and statute, so our mock contract proposals needed to reflect current labor settlements within our assigned industries. Our course grades would be determin
