On April 6, 2009, as the world was reeling from the impact of the global financial crisis, the Guardian ran a feature titled “Academies of the Apocalypse?” Arguing that U.S. business schools and recently-minted MBAs should shoulder most of the blame for the crisis, the article triggered a series of follow-on pieces in the world’s most-respected publications, many lambasting the value of top business schools like Harvard, Stanford, Wharton, and MIT, and questioning the ethical and moral convictions of their graduates.