Faith in the Workplace

In "God and Mammon at Harvard," Linda Tischler, a senior writer at FastCompany, looks at the Harvard Divninity school's record on faith and work.

the Divinity School's response to the growing national interest in faith in the workplace has been surprisingly conflicted. To scholars rooted in the flinty soil of New England, the vogue for spirituality in the corporation too often seems academically flabby, lowbrow, even vaguely unsavory. As a consequence, critics charge, the school has failed to create any lasting programs that address the nexus of religion in the workplace, and its professors have produced little in the way of substantive research on the topic.

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Strangely, the Harvard Business School faculty now seem more comfortable addressing issues of values, ethics, and social responsibility than their colleagues on the other side of the Yard. "I think there's an acknowledgment here that this is a big force in leaders' lives," says HBS's Nash.

HT Seminary Blog