Gordon Gekko weeps: Some M.B.A. graduates say greed isn’t good
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After decades of Gordon Gekko-style “greed is good” ethics on Wall Street, it seems new M.B.A. graduates are growing a conscience. Some students at Harvard have pledged to be good corporate citizens when they join the business world.
Nearly 20 percent of the graduating class have signed “The M.B.A. Oath,” a voluntary student-led pledge that the goal of a business manager is to “serve the greater good.” It promises that Harvard M.B.A.’s will act responsibly, ethically and refrain from advancing their “own narrow ambitions” at the expense of others.
Most telling? Not that 20 percent took the oath, but that 80 percent apparently declined. Gekko lives.
via A Promise to Be Ethical in an Era of Immorality – NYTimes.com.
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