A new survey by global MBA network Net Impact and the Aspen Institute finds a majority of students think business school paradigms too limited.

The survey, "New Leaders, New Perspectives: A Survey of MBA Student Opinions on the Relationship Between Business and Social/Environmental Issues", echoes what I have been thinking since completing my own MBA at London Business School in 1998:

"Nine out of ten respondents say that a focus in business on short-term rather than long-term results has been one of the contributing factors to the global financial crisis. Just 24% of respondents strongly agree that they are learning how to make business decisions that will help avert similar crises. In addition, a majority of the students surveyed strongly agree that there is a need for business schools to introduce other financial models into the curriculum, specifically models that take long-term social impacts into account."

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