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Liberal Arts and the Bottom Line

Atlantic Monthly Blog

July 14, 2010

The dean of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto has said openly that he's trying to create the first "liberal arts MBA." On one level, these changes are an effort to assuage society's concerns about bloodthirsty and uncaring business executives. But on another level, they reflect a growing belief that the kind of complex, critical thinking and ability to look at problems in larger contexts and from multiple points of view that a liberal arts education instills (at least in theory) actually leads to better decision-making skills in business executives.

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