In an opinion piece for the Columbia Daily Spectator, Professor Massimo Morelli urges college students who want to major in business, economics, or other related fields to accept the mission to bring ethics, responsibility, and transparency back into the market.
"We all want our politicians to be honest, competent, and transparent, but somehow we fell asleep while financial managers were creating a world of paper and garbage with our life savings," Morelli writes. He encourages the new generation of managers to "abandon the status quo image of sharks and roaring success for a more interesting and safer image: managers as transparent, honest, and smart organizers of our economy who are proud of the social and economic externalities they provide, rather than for their own ability to gain from the failures of others."
Read the entire piece here.