Manufacturing Morals: The Values of Silence in Business School Education

摘要

How can we teach people to be moral? It is a difficult, deep, and terribly important question. Michael Anteby's Manufacturing Morals aims to make a contribution to answering that question by studying the inner workings of Harvard Business School (HBS). The book is described as an "ethnography" constructed from four years of field notes from Anteby's time as an assistant professor. As such, the reader gets the entertaining picture that an anthropologist has entered upon the strange tribe of HBS and set about living among them and studying their ways. Anteby's meticulous observations and descriptions do this picture justice. Six chapters cover everything from the physical campus to the classroom experience to the ways that faculty are selected and groomed. Throughout, Anteby attentively captures the subtle ways in which small details-the proper consulting fees or the annual charity auction-influence expectations.