The Ethical MBA
The Daniels Compass is a program designed to provide students with the ethical foundation needed to make key decisions in the global business world. The curriculum is also focused on innovation, sustainability, globalization and adaptability.
MBA students work as a team through wilderness challenges in a mock crisis at Camp Hale.
The six-course curriculum is taught by a team of faculty members and addresses real-world issues such as:
- human rights
- environmental leadership
- world hunger
- renewable energy
- affordable health care
- micro-financing for social entrepreneurial activities
"Our students will contribute to their own advancement as well as that of their own employer and to the well-being of others around the world," says Daniels Interim Dean Bruce Hutton.
Leading at the edge
One part of the Compass program consists of a three-day leadership and teambuilding course called "Leading at the Edge."
Through this course, students spend two days in Florissant, Colo., learning leadership, team-building and problem-solving. On the third morning, students are taken to Camp Hale, outside of Leadville, where they are given a mock crisis to work out as a team through six challenges in the wilderness.
The course, lead by James O'Toole, author of The Executive Compass and inaugural Daniels Chair in Ethics, was inspired by the U.S. Army's 10th Mountain Division. The soldiers trained at Camp Hale during Would War II and fought in the Apennine Mountains in Italy. These soldiers created an environment that fostered creativity and innovation, in which MBA students follow in their footsteps during their third day.
"No business school is more committed to changing its curriculum to meet the needs of students," O'Toole says. "This is the most exciting MBA curriculum in the country right now."
Published on April 7, 2008