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...TERM "business ethics" is often considered an oxymoron. But across the river at Harvard Business School there are growing calls for inserting a mandatory course on that very subject into the curriculum for all MBA candidates...
Hardly. At best, such instruction would merely allow the University to disclaim responsibility for future alumni malfeasance. But Harvard is not to blame for the actions of its alumni. While instituting an ethics course may relieve the B-School's sense of guilt, it would not make Harvard MBA's any more "ethical...
Businessmen and Wall Street wizards who choose not to go in for illegal tactics aren't--and won't be--swayed by one course they were forced to endure back in school. Ethical sensibilities are the product of an extended formation and MBA students already in their middle to late 20s have for the most part made their fundamental decisions about their responsibilities to society...
...ethical considerations take their proper place in the policy process. Executives will have to allow such considerations their place, even if it affects the bottom line, and they'll have to exert pressure on their peers to do the same. Until that happens, the questions confronting Harvard MBA's in their future careers will continue to be: what can we get away with? or, how can we limit the damage...
After college, the Taunton native travelled andstudied in France for a year before returning toHarvard in quest of his MBA. While attending theB-school, Jewett was a freshman proctor, and uponreceiving his MBA in 1960, became one of the firstsenior advisers to freshmen. From there he movedto the admissions office, where he worked for 23years, including 13 as dean...