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Headlines New Advisory Council for BizEd BizEd has named a panel of members to serve on an Advisory Council to help review and approve articles submitted to the magazine for publication. Members of the council, who repre- sent diverse areas of expertise and knowledge within busi- ness schools and the communications and publishing fields, will evaluate each edition of the magazine and review manuscripts that are not staff-written. Each member will serve a two-year term. include: Ángel Cabrera, dean of the Instituto de Empresa in Madrid; Sid- ney E. Harris, dean of the J. Mack Robinson College of Business of Georgia State University in Atlanta; Jane Elizabeth Hughes, professor at the Graduate School of International Economics and Finance, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts; Richard J. Klimoski, dean of the School of Management of George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia; Patrick R. Liverpool, dean of the School of Management of Delaware State University in Dover; Linda A. Livingstone, dean of the George L. Graziadio School of Business and Management at Pepperdine University in Culver City, California; David K. Long, dean of the College of Business of Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania; Colleen Newquist, director of publications for the Grad- uate School of Business at The Uni- versity of Chicago; Earl H. Potter III, dean of the College of Business at Eastern Michigan University, Ypsi- lanti; Stephen A. Stumpf, The Fred J. Members of the advisory council 10 BizEd JULY/AUGUST 2003 MORE THAN 70 PERCENT OF RESPONDENTS BELIEVE THAT THE PERSONALITIES OF BUSINESS LEADERS, Springer Chair in Business Leader- ship at Villanova University in Penn- sylvania; Jerry E. Trapnell, dean of the College of Business and Behavioral Science at Clemson University in South Carolina; An- nette Veech, Senior Lecturer of Busi- ness Communications at the John M. Olin School of Business, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri. MBA Students Feel Unprepared Highly publicized corporate misconduct and a sharp economic downturn have significantly altered MBA students' views about business and their ca- reers, according to a new survey, "Where Will They Lead?: MBA Stu- dent Attitudes About Business & So- ciety 2003." The survey was con- ducted by The Aspen Institute's Business and Society Program, for- merly Aspen Initiative for Social In- novation through Business. More than 70 percent of respon- dents believe that the personalities of BELL Conference This Month The 2003 BELL Conference on "Ecosystems and Enterprise: Perspectives on Education for Sustainable Business" will be held July 17 through 19 by the World Resources Institute. The confer- ence will take place on the Fort Lauderdale campus of the Florida Atlantic University. Attending will be business college faculty, busi- ness leaders, representatives of nongovernmental organizations, and governmental officials. Keynote speakers will be Paul Evanson, president of Florida Power and Light Company, and Bruce Nelson, Chairman and CEO of Office Depot. For more infor- mation on the conference, go to the WRI Web site at www.wri.org. business leaders, not business prac- tices themselves, are the chief sources of the recent corporate scandals. Half the students feel they will have to make business decisions that conflict with their values. However, only 22 percent say their schools are doing much to prepare them to manage value conflicts; one in five respon- dents feel they are not being pre- pared at all. When they do face such conflicts, say 58 percent of survey re- spondents, they are "very likely" to stay and advocate alternative values or approaches, rather than leave the company. This finding contrasts sharply with last year's MBA Attitude Survey that found 53 percent of re- spondents "very likely" to look for another job. Gender differences are immedi- ately apparent in survey results, with women MBA students showing more concern about the impact of corporate social responsibility than their male colleagues. Among survey respondents, women also consider corporate reputation more strongly when choosing an employer and feel