An interesting article about how some MBA graduates are taking an oath to "serve the greater good". Pity it's only 20% of the graduating class at Harvard but you have to start someplace. :)
Those graduating today, they say, are far more concerned about how corporations affect the community, the lives of its workers and the environment. And business schools are responding with more courses, new centers specializing in business ethics and, in the case of Harvard, student-lead efforts to bring about a professional code of conduct for M.B.A.’s, not unlike oaths that are taken by lawyers and doctors. “I don’t see this as something that will fade away,” said Diana C. Robertson, a professor of business ethics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. “It’s coming from the students. I don’t know that we’ve seen such a surge in this activism since the 1960s. This activism is different, but, like that time, it is student-driven.”
Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/30/business/30oath.html?_r=1&em
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