Dear Entrepreneurship Friends and Colleagues:

Good Monday morning to you.

Some of you might want to take five minutes and read an interesting guest editorial in the Friday, February 19 issue of the WSJ, called My Antibusiness Business Education. The author is critical of his undergraduate business education at Bentley.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/my-antibusiness-business-education-1455839561

I especially noted:

In my introductory accounting and finance course, we learned the basics by studying all of the major corporate frauds of the past two decades, including Enron, Sunbeam, WorldCom and Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme.

In my introductory accounting class, I certainly don't have the time or luxury to teach the "basics" by "studying all the major corporate frauds of the past two decades."

Business faculty: do you teach major corporate frauds in your intro to accounting or finance course?

But certainly believe that business schools, as a whole, must do a better job of teaching a humanitarian world view as well as an organization-centered world view. This is where social enterprise (as content) and service learning (as pedagogy) can play a crucial role.

I just "toss" this out to members of this listserv to provoke a bit more dialog on this very important topic.

Have a great day.

Curt DeBerg

Professor, CSU-Chico

Founder: http://sageglobal.org

Author: How High Is Up? The Rise, Fall and Redemption of a Sam M. Walton SIFE Fellow

PS. Here's how I view humanitarian capitalism. The combination of business entrepreneurship and social enterprise provides a formula for a new kind of capitalism-a more humanitarian capitalism-espoused by Nobel Laureate, Muhammad Yunus. This new form of capitalism is also espoused by Microsoft's founder, Bill Gates. According to Gates, "Governments and nonprofit groups have an irreplaceable role in helping [the world's poor], but it will take far too long if they try to do it alone. It is mainly corporations that have the skills to make technological innovations work for the poor. To make the most of those skills, we need a more creative capitalism: an attempt to stretch the reach of market forces so that more companies can benefit from doing work that makes more people better off. We need new ways to bring far more people into the system-capitalism-that has done so much good in  the world."