Business School Grads Take Oath, Pledge To Not Put Themselves Before Society, Employers

BusinessWeek:

When Larry Estrada graduates from Harvard Business School next week, he'll begin work at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. He'll do so only after taking an oath.

Estrada, 30, has joined with about 150 fellow business school students and faculty worldwide to crusade for the acceptance of an MBA ethics pledge modeled on the Hippocratic Oath taken by doctors. The aim is to get as many as 6,000 graduates at 50 MBA programs to swear they won't put personal ambitions before the interests of their employers or society.

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Comments

[FBuchan]

12:41 PM on 05/20/2010

I once swore not to eat a second bowl of Froot Loops. It turned out they were so tasty I just had to.

When these MBAs discover the value of throwing ethics under the bus (and the fact if they don't they'll be beaten down and tossed aside at the highest levels), they'll treat those oaths the same as the past batches have.

[MCJanes]

04:49 PM on 05/20/2010

Well said.

We'll see how long this ironically selfish self-righteousness lasts.