MBA Oath Goes International
June 12, 2009
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The MBA oath, promising to act with integrity and ethics, proposed by students in the MBA program at Harvard University earlier this month has since gone viral on the web, with over 800 signatures to date from countries around the world.
Max Anderson, the man who came up with the idea for the oath, told Business Week he has received requests from people at more than 25 MBA schools around the world to bring the oath to their campus.
Other oaths and professional codes for MBAs have existed, but some feel there is a more permanent shift to viewing the MBA as a vocation, like medicine or law. Professor Rakesh Khurana, who has argued for such a shift before, told The Economist, "Students are saying they want business education to operate in a different way and that they want higher expectations from faculty."
It is a sentiment shared by Ángel Cabrera, president of the Thunderbird School of Global Management, whose graduating class has recited a moral pledge since 2006.
"It's not just a temporary thing," he said. "I really think there's also a generational shift."
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