Business Scholars Institute
A cross-institutional community of future leaders that begins during the undergraduate years into the late stages of a person’s career.
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Throughout history, business has played a crucial role in providing opportunities, fostering cultural collaboration, and addressing economic and social issues. Today’s bachelor’s degree in business is highly popular and positioned as a way to help students boost their career opportunities. Even so, criticisms exist suggesting a collective negative impact on society, with concerns about students being perceived as ‘pre-professional,’ ‘narrow-minded,’ and ‘salary-obsessed.’
In some ways, the existence of these stereotypes admits the fact that business schools can fall short of their mission to develop principled leaders who understand the role business plays in achieving positive impact. Instead of playing defense by outfitting our schools with new courses, degree programs, research centers, and certificates, the Business Scholars Institute (BSI) begs the question; what if we imagined a new model of undergraduate business education altogether?
Our mission is to answer this question by championing a new paradigm of leadership and professional formation that involves the ‘whole person’ – a process, we believe, that importantly continues even after a student walks across the graduation stage.