When Keith Scott was shot and killed by a policeman in North Carolina in September, Matt Bubley felt compelled to rally his fellow students at Dartmouth College’s Tuck School of Business.

The second year MBA student and intern at McKinsey, the management consultancy, says he was surprised by the level of support from classmates. Three-hundred students — close to half of those enrolled at the school — joined a demonstration on the front steps of Tuck’s main campus building against police violence towards black people.

“Most of the student body, like me, are white, so I was moved by how many people turned up,” Mr Bubley says. “It is a feeling that business people ought to be concerned about what goes on in the broader world around them.”