Crafting educational programs in modern business schools: a transformative shift in values and culture.
148 founders — graduates of eight U.S. and four Canadian colleges, each running a business for at least three years.
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Marat Ressin asks whether the “responsible management” side of a business education — ethics, long-term thinking, awareness of stakeholders — carries through to how graduates’ own companies later perform.
He surveyed 148 founders — graduates of eight U.S. and four Canadian colleges whose firms had run for at least three years — and used analysis of variance to weigh their self-rated exposure to responsible management against financial outcomes, alongside factors such as education quality, background and work experience. The ratings differ significantly across groups. Ressin frames the finding as an association observed among surviving firms, rather than proof of cause.
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Ressin, M. (2026). Crafting educational programs in modern business schools: A transformative shift in values and culture. Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Education, 15(3), 117–136. https://doi.org/10.32674/q2ec7086
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Canadian Foundationfor Innovation and Research
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