Bernie Madoff, Harvard Ethics Professor?

Bernie Madoff really wants to get into academia.

The Ponzi schemer, who is now spending lots of time in federal prison, claimed that Harvard is interested in having him lecture on ethics at their Business School.
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Fox Business has more:

And, at least in his mind, he's getting ready to help the prestigious Harvard Business School develop course work for its students from his jail cell at Butner. In one of the handful of interviews he has given since his arrest in 2008, Madoff said that Harvard is interested in his input to develop a course in business ethics. Now he tells FOX Business that the school's focus is in "building an Entrepreneurial course" not just on his career as a swindler (though that will certainly come up), but also his pre-phony hedge fund days, when Bernie Madoff was considered one of the best traders on Wall Street.

The course, according to Madoff, will focus "around my experiences building my market making and Prop trading business and my role in NASDAQ and electronic trading. I have been approached by number of other business schools but have only committed to Harvard."

What does Harvard have to say to this?

"The entire matter is not true," a Harvard Business School spokesman told Fox Business. "The business school is not working with Bernard Madoff on anything."

Madoff has floated the idea of his professorship before, telling the FT in April that both Harvard and Northwestern were interested in his expertise in ethics.

Comments

[Sleepers Awake]

03:44 AM on 08/28/2011

Bernie Madoff teaching Ethics at Harvard isn't nearly as bad as John Yoo teaching Law at the University of California at Berkeley.

[Vic22]

12:17 AM on 08/28/2011

With his business ethics, I'm surprised he didn't go to Harvard

[Reikoku Jaken]

10:37 PM on 08/27/2011

Wait so...FoX, or anyone else for the matter, is trusting in what an elite BUSINESS school says pertaining its curriculum planning?

There's gullibility, and then there's this.

[cdecisneros]

10:52 AM on 08/27/2011

How not to have any Ethics101.

[bessielil]

10:30 PM on 08/26/2011

I do hope that business schools team up with psyche departments and use Madoff as a case history of how someone can create business, a mystique, and desire by the pretense of exclusivity. "Oh, he's not important enough to invest with me." "Bernie won't talk to anyone with less than a billion." Just that dynamic of playing in the circle of the big boys is worth a study, as well as the tendency for charities to assume that no one would take advantage of THEM what with their doing good works and all.

[bengfrorer]

05:22 PM on 08/26/2011

Henry Winkler (the fonze) could play him in a tv movie. Ay.

[paid troll]

04:45 PM on 08/26/2011

faux noise & bernie mad0ff, i wouldn't believe a word that either ph0ny says.

[sfbbmom]

02:14 PM on 08/26/2011

Somebody just made this up.

[ArdentV]

01:29 PM on 08/26/2011

Ethics: Violation Of; 101. Prerequisite for Advanced Seminar. Private Mentoring option available.

[SBinF]

01:23 PM on 08/26/2011

Shouldn't this be in the Comedy section?

[ricchh]

01:22 PM on 08/26/2011

What a joke. Bernie is up there with Larry Sumers.

[hypnotoad72]

01:08 PM on 08/26/2011

Like he'd listen or care...

Harvard just wants the tuition that Madoff (won't) pay.

[Kelly8]

12:46 PM on 08/26/2011

Bernie teaching ethics - Bristol talking abstinence - what's next? Casey Anthony's book on parenting? RIP Caylee.

[VA Jill]

12:45 PM on 08/26/2011

Oh goodness, Bernie....can you spell "delusional"?

[gumbygirl1]

12:29 PM on 08/26/2011

Bernie's dyslexic. He meant to say that Harvard wants to teach him ethics!