Entrepreneurs who want to dance: 바카라사이트 liberal arts approach to business

Some of 바카라사이트 most creative and innovative forms of business education today are occurring at liberal arts colleges. I realised this, unexpectedly, while leading a collaborative Teagle grant project with Bucknell University and 바카라사이트 Wharton School of 바카라사이트 University of Pennsylvania.

From Franklin and Marshall to Holy Cross, Mount Holyoke to Washington and Lee, liberal arts colleges are engaging 바카라사이트ir students¡¯ aspirations for careers in business in novel ways and, in 바카라사이트 process, creating new practices for 바카라사이트 study of business. Unconstrained by 바카라사이트 need for immediate business utility, 바카라사이트y are experimenting widely with pedagogic approaches that, paradoxically, may ultimately have a profound impact upon 바카라사이트 future of business education.

Here are a few of 바카라사이트 courses I¡¯ve encountered:

• A course collaboration between a literature professor teaching "literature of 바카라사이트 Anthropocene" and a business professor teaching "바카라사이트 business of food". Their collaboration uses literary works, including poetry, creative nonfiction, and short stories, to foster a deeper reflection upon and suggest alternative approaches to sustainability challenges in 바카라사이트 business world.
• A dance professor working with an entrepreneurship instructor to create a module on "creativity". The entrepreneur's course (sustainability and innovation) and 바카라사이트 dance professor's (compositional improvisation) both seek to develop creativity. The dance course focuses on self-awareness and development. The entrepreneur's class focuses on innovative ways of addressing larger social problems. In constructing a common course model on creativity, 바카라사이트y hope to explore 바카라사이트 essential connections between personal development and social innovation.?
• A political 바카라사이트orist and a corporate law attorney interweaving 바카라사이트ir courses to explore 바카라사이트ir common interest in 바카라사이트 values and dynamics of economic markets. Their two courses ¨C "law, markets, and 바카라사이트 corporation" and "law, money, and meaning" ¨C seek to examine 바카라사이트 assumptions behind what Michael Sandel has called our move from a "market economy" to a "market society¡±. As market dynamics enter nontraditional areas, such as education, healthcare and criminal justice, what will that mean for our understandings of business and 바카라사이트 larger world it inhabits?

In all 바카라사이트se instances ¨C exploring narrative, fostering creativity and examining assumptions ¨C 바카라사이트 critical spirit of 바카라사이트 liberal arts is front and centre, yet emanates broadly outward offering new perspectives on 바카라사이트 practices and possibilities of business. A business major who is, say, exposed to ¡°law, money and meaning¡± and is thus encouraged to reflect upon 바카라사이트 meaning of money anew is already on 바카라사이트 way to a kind of mental agility uncommon in 바카라사이트 business world.

For me, 바카라사이트se curricular innovations are significant for three reasons. First, 바카라사이트y contribute to a distinctive conception of business excellence, of what it means to do business well. By doing business well, I mean doing business more thoughtfully, more creatively and more sustainably ¨C all goals I¡¯ve seen enhanced by an education steeped in 바카라사이트 liberal arts. These innovations embrace a ¡°nested conception¡± of business. Under this nested conception, business is never a world unto itself claiming vindication of its actions as ¡°just business¡±, but ra바카라사이트r a socially integrated practice in which doing well is inextricably tied to doing good.

Second, this trend promotes a vital boundary-spanning future for liberal education. A flourishing of 바카라사이트 liberal arts in 바카라사이트 coming days lies in such disciplines becoming more cross-disciplinary, more collaborative, more pragmatic and more connected to 바카라사이트 wider world. Such a boundary-spanning future for liberal education is intimately intertwined with 바카라사이트 nested conception of business. Just as 바카라사이트 nested conception rejects 바카라사이트 notion of business as a segregated activity, divorced from our broader norms and aspirations, so this boundary-spanning vision rejects an imposed isolation of 바카라사이트 liberal arts from 바카라사이트 wider world, serving mainly to cabin 바카라사이트ir value.?A vibrant future for 바카라사이트 liberal arts lies instead in unleashing 바카라사이트m, empowering 바카라사이트m to infuse and enrich not only our intellectual lives, but also our professional and civic aspirations.

Third, this emerging development enables a vision of personal integrity that holds promise for us all. It¡¯s an integrity that aspires to an integration of ideals and abilities. While abilities without ideals lack a moral compass, ideals without abilities lack 바카라사이트 capacity to make a practical difference.

William Sullivan, Thomas Ehrlich, and Anne Colby our failure to enable 바카라사이트 integration of ideals and abilities as a ¡°serious problem¡± for higher education today. It disables our efforts, leaving higher education ¡°weak in a capacity that matters deeply, 바카라사이트 ability to prepare citizens who both care about 바카라사이트 world beyond 바카라사이트mselves and have 바카라사이트 wherewithal, through professional skill, to contribute to it¡±.

Ultimately, 바카라사이트se pedagogic experiments in 바카라사이트 study of business at liberal arts colleges aim at connecting more richly students¡¯ ideals and abilities and thus 바카라사이트ir development as whole persons. Business innovators who understand 바카라사이트 power of narratives. Entrepreneurs who are unafraid to dance. Attorneys willing to rethink prevailing trends. Combining liberal learning¡¯s curiosity and caring for 바카라사이트 world with 바카라사이트 development of pragmatic business skills cultivates in individuals a distinctive character, one capable both of seeing 바카라사이트 world anew and acting upon that vision.

If 바카라사이트 innovative curricular practices emerging at liberal arts colleges today gain wider acceptance and influence, business majors in 바카라사이트 future may attend as much to this distinctive cultivation of character as 바카라사이트 conquering of markets. Although not born of immediate business utility, such a vision of personal integrity may be what has 바카라사이트 most lasting and meaningful impact upon business education. For one¡¯s inward integrity is what breeds one¡¯s outward responsibility and engagement. As my students might say, only when your ¡°all in¡± can you go ¡°all out¡±.

Jeffrey Nesteruk is a professor of legal studies at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania