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Jun 8, 2009

"Anything less than a conscious commitment to the important is an unconscious commitment to the unimportant." --Stephen Covey

A Hippocratic Oath for Managers

On June 3rd an unusual oath was taken by more than 400 students graduating from Harvard Business School. At an unofficial ceremony the day before they received their MBAs, the students promised they would, among other things, "serve the greater good", "act with the utmost integrity" and guard against "decisions and behaviour that advance my own narrow ambitions, but harm the enterprise and the societies it serves." You may snigger. Yet with around half of this year's graduating class taking the pledge, Max Anderson, an MBA student himself, saw it as a triumph for a campaign that he launched only last month. He had hoped to get 100 of his classmates to sign up at best. This Economist article shares more.