A value-added education: BC’s business school dean aims to build its program around ethics 

This article explores the added emphasis in values-based teaching brought to Boston College’s Business School by its new dean, Andrew Boynton.  Boynton has sought to more vocally and actively emphasize core Jesuit values—developing a healthy mind, body and spirit, along with maintaining the school’s reputation for excellence in finance and accounting.  Boynton believes that emphasizing values in business school is important in a day and age where mistrust of corporations has grown.  Boynton has received faculty support for his increased emphasis on ethics and responsible leadership. 

Boynton believes that an increased emphasis on ethics will not detract from attention to core business school courses, and that the support and encouragement from the school to act ethically will give students the tools to change unethical or questionable practices in the business world.  ''It's a lot deeper than simply doing a couple of case studies around Enron. ... Our students are going to be captains and lieutenants of their organizations in the very near future. And if they're sitting around the table and they see something wrong, we want them to be able to have the values and the influence to change those things."

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