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November 30, 2009
Two INSEAD professors, Theo Vermaelen and N. Craig Smith, provide a set of well-thought-out perspectives on the MBA Oath.
Vermaelen makes the provocative argument that the Oath actually invites violation of fiduciary duties and ethical standards. Meanwhile, Smith states that the Oath may be one of a number of appropriate responses by business schools to business [...]
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October 5, 2009
Two 2010 MBA students present very different viewpoints on the MBA Oath in the Harbus, HBS’ weekly student paper. Larry Estrada calls the oath “an opportunity to reassert the purpose of the business profession”.
As MBA students and future business leaders, we have an opportunity to promote a higher standard aimed at professionalizing business and ensuring [...]
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September 17, 2009
In a provocative essay on Businessweek.com, INSEAD Dean J. Frank Brown suggests that business schools need to seize on the current environment as an opportunity.
If business schools don’t focus more on ethics now, today’s concern about business ethics will fade away, and no progress will be made after all the world has been through in [...]
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September 13, 2009
The MBA Oath continues to generate a lot of discussion online, with a great recent discussion at 12Manage.
Also Time has a short review of Rosabeth Moss Kanter’s new book on “How Vanguard Companies Create Innovation, Profits, Growth, and Social Good.”
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September 6, 2009
From South Korea, we get word that several graduates from the first graduating class of the SolBridge International School of Business have embraced the MBA Oath. Along with the newly-minted graduates, we are seeing an increasing number of MBAs with years and sometimes decades’ worth of experience taking the MBA Oath. Among them is our [...]
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August 16, 2009
We are ramping up efforts to build on the MBA Oath momentum by providing MBA students worldwide the opportunity to start official MBA Oath chapters at their schools.
Those who embark on starting a chapter will face a challenging task, but will also join the passionate group of founding students who are aiming to change the [...]
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August 2, 2009
The Christian Science Monitor’s piece on the MBA Oath brings up a student’s questioning of whether “serving the greater good” is compatible with capitalism.
Such dialogue highlights “a deep fundamental difference about what the purpose of the corporation is and whether it has any responsibility to society other than maximizing profits,” says Rakesh Khurana…It will take [...]
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July 22, 2009
The Utah Economist blog posts an interesting question in the context of intellectual property rights and profit protection – how much societal value creation or destruction is there in companies protecting their innovations through patents?
A similar dillemma can be found in matters as diverse as regulated utilities with a guaranteed return and Mickey Mouse’s copyright [...]
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July 17, 2009
An incoming 2010 Duke EMBA student has posted a critique of the MBA oath which reflects two common concerns that we have seen from MBAs regarding the oath.
At its core, the “MBA Oath” reads as if historically, the only reason that a person pursued an MBA was to become a better grifter. Someone proficient at [...]
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July 11, 2009
In a news bulletin on Oxford Said Business School’s website, the Vice-Dean of Student Programmes and a current student share their thoughts on the MBA Oath. Raj Tulshan, a current student, commented:
“Many of us have found this initiative to resonate with our own convictions. The point of an MBA should not just be about equipping [...]
