Tuesday, June 30, 2009

The teachers join the students distancing themselves from the culture of greed in higher education

Soapbox: Students need to be wary of ‘greed is good

By Kamal Munir, Financial Times, June 22, 2009

Recently, teaching a group of finance students – many of them ex-investment bankers – at Cambridge, I asked if any of them had seen Oliver Stone’s famous film about corporate greed, Wall Street.

The entire class chuckled and one girl replied with mock astonishment: “You mean how many times have we seen it?”

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