The aim of this article is both a pronouncement of doom and an offer of hope for the Western business school. Both come from the recognition that business schools are haunted and that the haunting spectre is none other than the capitalist ideology. We ground our thinking in the established rich ‘ghostly’ academic literature where the metaphor of the ghost is used to reveal the powerful agency of the unspoken-of and the unseen. Using three fictional ghostly tales as interpretive lenses, we make three arguments. First, we argue that capitalism is a ghost in the walls of the business school. Second, we suggest that capitalism’s ghostly nature prevents the business school from offering a curriculum that serves more than the growth of financial capital. Third, we propose that naming of capitalism is integral to the exorcism of its ghost and the creation of curriculum that engages with the social and environmental challenges of our times.

本文的目的既是宣告厄运，又是对西方商学院的希望。两者都源于对商学院的困扰，而困扰幽灵就是资本主义意识形态。我们的思想是建立在丰富的“鬼怪”学术文献上的，其中幽灵的隐喻被用来揭示潜行者和看不见者的强大力量。使用三个虚构的鬼故事作为解释镜头，我们提出了三个论点。首先，我们认为资本主义是商学院内的幽灵。其次，我们认为，资本主义的幽灵性质阻止了商学院提供比金融资本增长更多的课程。第三，