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...Rajan emphasized the ways in which many have lost faith in the business community due to the financial crisis. He added that despite this, students could use their knowledge and experience to help improve the world. Rajan noted that more than 400 students had signed up to recite an oath affirming their commitment to integrity and accountability in business practice after the Class Day ceremony. “May we give more of ourselves to our communities, to our workplaces, to our families,” Rajan said. “Let it go forth from this time that...
...MBAs so concerned with increasing their personal wealth that they ignore ethics and their responsibilities to society?” So asks the introduction to the MBA Oath, a code of conduct written and publicized by a group of second-year students at Harvard Business School this spring. By becoming a signatory, MBAs pledge, among other noble things, to “act with utmost integrity and pursue [their] work in an ethical manner.” As of yesterday, about 40 percent of the approximately 900 members in the HBS Class of 2009 had signed the online oath...
However, not all reaction to the oath has been positive. On several online forums, posters have argued that the oath represents empty rhetoric...
...Anderson said he believes that the oath has value even without an enforcement mechanism...
...public pledge also allows for accountability and the organizers are considering support methods, such as ongoing education and online discussions to support oath-takers, Anderson said...