In this week’s Financial Times, Philip Delves Broughton gives a review of the MBA Oath Book. You can read it here.
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MBA alumnus and author of The Compromise Trap Eliabeth Doty has a very interesting take on misconceptions about compromise at work and how the MBA Oath helps address them. Doty argues that a proactive, self-aware approach is an important part of organzational and individual integrity:
Not knowing how susceptible we are to situational influences can lead to less ethical [...]
Julia Tyler an executive vice president at the Graduate Management Admission Council, the makers of the GMAT recently wrote an op-ed in the Financial Times about cheating on standardized management exams. It happens. So who is responsible for doing something about it? It would be easy for the test makers to absolve themselves of responsibility. [...]
This week, 239 graduating MBAs from Egypt’s ESLCA signed the MBA Oath. ESLSCA, Ecole Supérieure Libre des Sciences Commerciales Appliquées, is one of Europe’s leading business schools. The campus in Egypt runs a masters program in international business. We have learned that their entire class of graduating students signed the oath at their graduation this [...]
In the past week, two companies showcased their unique approaches to acting in accordance with their beliefs.
Last Monday, Twitter CEO Evan Williams announced that the company had gone through a process to “define their operating principles“.
The number one principle is “be a force for good.”…from a business perspective, Twitter needs to fundamentally be about [...]
Today Google made history. David Drummond, the Internet giant’s chief legal officer announced on Google’s company blog that the company is no longer censoring its search results in China.
“earlier today we stopped censoring our search services—Google Search, Google News, and Google Images—on Google.cn. Users visiting Google.cn are now being redirected to Google.com.hk, where we are [...]
There has been a lot of talk about Lehman’s use of Repo 105s in the press recently but not a lot of good explanation of what it actually means. A repo loan is a loan where the borrower “sells” an asset today for cash and promises to buy the asset back at a higher price [...]
An Investor’s Business Daily story reports that businesses have made major ethical strides in the past couple years:
The Ethics Resource Center’s National Business Ethics Survey, released late last year, shows that 49% of employees witnessed misconduct in the past year. That’s improved from 56% in the previous survey two years ago. Whistle-blowing is up and [...]
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