MBA Oath

01 Sep 2010
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An Encore for the MBA Oath

PUBLIC PLEDGE: Students attend oath ceremony. The student-initiated MBA Oath, a pledge not to advance personal interests at the expense of an enterprise or society, has graduated in one year from being... View Details

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19 Apr 2019
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Instagram Takeover - The MBA Oath

The MBA Oath is a voluntary pledge MBAs take to create value in the business world responsibly and ethically. Founded at HBS in 2009, it was modeled after the Hippocratic View Details

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Instagram Takeover - MBA Oath

27 May 2011
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Professor Rob Kaplan Addresses MBA Oath

25 May 2011
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MBA Oath Speech

By: Robert Steven Kaplan

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19 Feb 2010
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The MBA Oath Debate

After months of glowing press accounts, the MBA Oath, a voluntary HBS student-crafted pledge that asks graduating MBAs to commit to the creation of value “responsibly and ethically,” has hit a media rough... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Sep 2009
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MBA Oath Maintains Momentum

Conceived and implemented in the closing weeks of the 2009 academic year, the HBS student-inspired MBA Oath has continued to grow and gain support both at the School and beyond. Spearheaded by Max Anderson... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management

08 May 2020
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Building a World of Trusted Leaders: Taking the MBA Oath

In 2009, students at Harvard Business School mobilized to create a social contract: the MBA Oath. The MBA Oath has since been adopted by 1000+ MBAs worldwide and counting. In this new era, the View Details

11 Jun 2009
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A Hippocratic oath for MBAs

01 Mar 2010
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A New Oath for Business Leaders

the much-talked-about MBA Oath last spring, worked with the YGL on writing the new Global Business Oath. Read the oath, available in eight languages, at www.globalbusinessoath.org. View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

18 May 2010
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Executive Ethics

Keywords: Prof. Nitin Nohria; MBA oath; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

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Ten years on, HBS students revive the push for an MBA Oath | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

01 Jun 2010
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Rethinking the MBA

student creators and signers of the new MBA Oath that pledges ethical business behavior a step ahead of the schools that they attended? Datar: The oath is valuable, but... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

04 Jun 2020
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What MBAs can do in Defense of Black Lives

Sign the MBA Oath. Created in the wake of the 2008 Financial Crisis, the MBA Oath is a pledge for business school graduates who aspire to be ethical managers and leaders.... View Details

September 2010 (Revised October 2010)
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HBS Class of 2009: All Talk As They Prepare to Walk?

By: Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria and Dalia Rahman

Max Anderson, HBS Class of 2009, founded the MBA Oath Initiative. The oath was a voluntary pledge "to create value responsibly and ethically." Anderson and a team of students and faculty worked to launch the first MBA Oath Ceremony conducted on campus during Harvard... View Details

Keywords: Business Education; Higher Education; Values and Beliefs; Leadership; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Social Issues; Value Creation; Education Industry; Massachusetts

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21 May 2020
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Creating a World with Trusted Leaders: An Open Letter from MBA Students

information proved to us why we needed to use our voice. The letter continues to gather signatures organically, which is something we welcome. Today, ten years after the MBA oath was first launched at HBS... View Details

Rakesh Khurana

Rakesh Khurana is the Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development at the Harvard Business School. He is also Professor of Sociology at Harvard University, co-Master of Cabot House at Harvard College, and the Danoff Dean of Harvard College.

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Keywords: executive search

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Research Thrust

By: Rakesh Khurana

I am trained in organizational sociology and my main areas of interest lie in macro-organizational theory and the dynamics of executive labor markets. To date, my research has focused on two themes. The first revolves around understanding the forces that govern the... View Details

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Accounting & Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Medical Records on Hospital Utilization Costs" with Luminita Enache, Xue Guo, and Eddie Riedl. Jonas Heese : Winner of the 2021–2022 Glen McLaughlin Prize for Research in Accounting Ethics for “When Executives Pledge Integrity: The Effect of the Accountant’s View Details

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