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Amitai Etzioni is not surprised by the latest headings about scheming corpor

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问题     Amitai Etzioni is not surprised by the latest headings about scheming corporate crooks(骗子). As a visiting professor at the Harvard Business School in 1989, he ended his work there disgusted with his students’ overwhelming lust for money. "They’re taught that profit is all that matters," he says. "Many schools don’t even offer ethics(伦理学) comes at all."
    Etzioni expressed his frustration about the interests of his graduate students. "By and large, I clearly had not found a way to help classes full of MBAs see that there is more to life than money, power, fame and self-interest," he wrote at the time. Today he still takes the blame for not educating these "business-leaders-to-be." "I really feel like I failed them," he says. "If I was a better teacher maybe I could have reached them."
    Etzioni was a respected ethics expert when he arrived at Harvard. He hoped his work at the university would give him insight into how questions of morality could be applied to places where self-interest flourished. What he found wasn’t encouraging. Those would-be executives had, says Etzioni, little interest in concepts of ethics and morality in the boardroom -- and their professor was met with blank stares when he urged his students to see business in new and different ways.
    Etzioni sees the experience at Harvard as an eye-opening one and says there’s much about business schools that he’d like to change. "A lot of the faculty teaching business are bad news themselves," Etzioni says. From offering classes that teach students how to legally manipulate contracts, to reinforcing the notion of profit over community interests, Etzioni has seen a lot that’s left him shaking his head. And because of what he’s seen taught in business schools, he’s not surprised by the latest rash of corporate scandals. "In many ways things have got a lot worse at business schools, I suspect." says Etzioni.
    Etzioni is still teaching the sociology of right and wrong and still calling for ethical business leadership. "People with poor motives will always exist," he says. "Sometimes environments constrain those people and sometimes environments give those people opportunity." Etzioni says the booming economy of the last decade enabled those individuals with poor motives to get rich before getting in trouble. His hope now: that the cries for reform will provide more fertile soil for his longstanding messages about business ethics.
选项 A、Their keen interest in business courses.
B、Their intense desire for money.
C、Their tactics for making profits.
D、Their potential to become business leaders.
答案 B
解析 本题属细节题，问“Amitai Etxioni 对哈佛大学MBA 学生印象最深刻的地方”。短文在第一段中就提到了Ami tai Etzioni 的印象：“As a visiting professor at the Hazard Business School in 1989，he ended his work there disgusted with his students’ overwhelming lust for money.”，即他在哈佛商学院担任客座教授期间，很反感学生对于金钱的强烈欲望。因此，Amitai Etzioni 印象最深的地方为“学生对金钱的强烈欲望”，故选B项。A项“对商学院课程的浓厚并趣”。短文没有提及。C项“挣钱的手段”。文中没涉及。D项“成为商界精英的潜力”。短文第二段提到“...these‘business-leaders-to-be’...”，说明那些学生有望成为未来商界的精英，但这并不是MBA 学生留给Amitai Etzioni 印象最深的地方。
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