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Posted on behalf of Jeff Mowatt
In an article this week in the Guardian. Peter Singer describes a movement which has had 20% of this years graduates take an oath,
[MBA} students are circulating an oath that commits them to pursue their work "in an ethical manner"; "to strive to create sustainable economic, social, and environmental prosperity worldwide"; and to manage their enterprises "in good faith, guarding against decisions and behaviour that advance my own narrow ambitions but harm the enterprise and the societies it serves."
Ironically, P-CED followed Harvard into Russia in 1999 after the collapse of the rouble and this may well be one of the roots. This ought to be a something we could use to self-promote as one of the pioneers. I'm not sure that we'll be credited however.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jun/21/harvard-mba-bus...
In an article this week in the Guardian. Peter Singer describes a movement which has had 20% of this years graduates take an oath,
[MBA} students are circulating an oath that commits them to pursue their work "in an ethical manner"; "to strive to create sustainable economic, social, and environmental prosperity worldwide"; and to manage their enterprises "in good faith, guarding against decisions and behaviour that advance my own narrow ambitions but harm the enterprise and the societies it serves."
Ironically, P-CED followed Harvard into Russia in 1999 after the collapse of the rouble and this may well be one of the roots. This ought to be a something we could use to self-promote as one of the pioneers. I'm not sure that we'll be credited however.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jun/21/harvard-mba-bus...
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Comment by Jeff Mowatt on June 29, 2009 at 5:49pm -
Thanks for posting here Karen.
I'd placed it on the other group as an illustration of ethical business taking the lead with regard to what becomes mainstream business school thinking. Hence my belief in it raising the image/branding of what we stand for,
Today, there's another illustration in the call for a people-centered economy from a leading economics professor at Columbia, reinforcing what my colleague Terry delivered as a concept 13 years before.
http://www.ecademy.com/node.php?id=130885
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