The MBA Oath has been covered by new outlets around the world, including The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, The New York Times, and dozens more. To contact us for an interview, email info[at]mbaoath.org.
The Harbus
Ten Years On, HBS Students Revive the Push for an MBA Oath | May 4, 2018
This year’s graduating MBA Class will re-enter the workforce ten years after the onset of the greatest economic recession in a generation. While the stock market has since recovered, business leaders today face an increasingly complex web of ethical and legal challenges amidst rising public scrutiny of their actions. >READ MORE
Fox Business
HBS Graduate on MBA Ethics Oath | May 5, 2011
Harvard Business School graduate Max Anderson on how the financial crisis is changing the perspective of MBA students. >READ MORE
The Financial Times
MBA oath provides an ethical foundation | February 6, 2011
People expect the Church to talk about moral values but it is fascinating to observe that the world of business also uses spiritual, even religious, language… >READ MORE
The Wall Street Journal
B-Schools Try Makeover | May 6, 2010
Harvard and Other Elite Institutions Hire New Deans; the ‘M.B.A. Oath’ >READ MORE
The Washington Post
Confronting corporate bullies, one oath at a time | February 10, 2010
Bullies have long reigned supreme on school playgrounds but their childhood rule may be ending. Norwegian psychologist Dan Olweus has shown a way to reduce bullying: engaging an entire school in community building. >READ MORE
GOOD
The GOOD 100: MBA Oath | October 16, 2009
At last year’s Harvard Business School graduation, more than half of the students took a new student-authored MBA Oath, a pledge to “serve the greater good” and to “act with utmost integrity”-promises that, after the last few years, you might not associate with future CEOs. > READ MORE
BBC
Masters in Business | September 13, 2009
In this week’s Assignment Ed Butler asks what role business schools played in last year’s financial crisis. >READ MORE
The Daily Show
MBA Ethics Oath | August 12, 2009
John Oliver enlists the help of a former convict to convince business students to sign an ethics oath. >READ MORE
Bloomberg News
The MBA Oath | July 29, 2009
Harvard Students Write Pledge Promoting Ethical Behavior. > READ MORE
The Guardian
Business graduates: do no harm | June 17, 2009
Harvard University commencement took place earlier this month with all the requisite pomp and circumstance. Thousands of students paraded into the Yard. In years past, Harvard Business School graduates would distinguish themselves as the most dissolute of the bunch by waving $20 bills. This year, however, instead of dollars, hundreds of graduates – including myself – waved copies of the MBA Oath, a new Hippocratic-style pledge for business professionals, committing themselves to “create value, responsibly and ethically”. > READ MORE
CNN
MBA students pledge to serve the greater good | June 12, 2009
In the wake of the banking crisis, Wall Street’s travails and the Enron scandal, some have been asking if it might be time for business people to make a similar oath. Last week a group of MBA students at Harvard Business School (HBS) took it upon themselves to do just that. > READ MORE
Bloomberg
Harvard’s MBA Oath Goes Viral | June 11, 2009
Started by 33 second-year MBA students at Harvard Business School as a way to bolster B-school ethics, the group originally hoped 100 of their classmates in the Harvard class of 2009 would sign up to “act with utmost integrity.” At the time, it seemed like a stretch. > READ MORE
Harvard Business Review
Why We Created the MBA Oath | June 8, 2009
Our goal is to begin a widespread movement of MBAs who aim to lead in the interests of the greater good and who have committed to living out the principles articulated in the Oath. This year, U.S. schools will award more than 100,000 MBA degrees, more than twice the number of law degrees and medical degrees combined. And yet the MBA does not make you a professional like these other degrees do. What if it did? > READ MORE
National Public Radio
MBA ‘Hippocratic’ Oath Aims For Ethical Business | June 7, 2009
The ethics of business were on the minds of a group of students who’ve just received their master’s degrees from Harvard Business School. They’ve mounted a campaign to have graduating students take what they call the “MBA Oath.” It’s modeled after the medical profession’s Hippocratic oath. >READ MORE
The Economist
Forswearing greed | June 4, 2009
At an unofficial ceremony the day before they received their MBAs, the students promised they would, among other things, “serve the greater good”, “act with the utmost integrity” and guard against “decisions and behaviour that advance my own narrow ambitions, but harm the enterprise and the societies it serves.” > READ MORE
Fast Company
An Ethics Pledge for MBAs | June 4, 2009
Lawyers have their oath of attorney, and doctors have that Hippocratic one, but it struck Max Anderson, a Princeton alumnus who today graduates from the Harvard Business School, that MBAs have nothing. > READ MORE
The New York Times
A Promise to Be Ethical in an Era of Immorality | May 29, 2009
When a new crop of future business leaders graduates from the Harvard Business School next week, many of them will be taking a new oath that says, in effect, greed is not good. >READ MORE