Take the Oath
Take the Oath
So I was struck, late last year, how often the word came up when I interviewed Turney Stevens, dean of Lipscomb's College of Business.
We were talking about ethics in business, which became something of an antiquated notion itself in recent years, as we have all sadly discovered.
But dishonor, greed and outright fraud is nothing new. My son wanted to watch "The Smartest Guys in the Room," the excellent documentary about the rise and fall of energy giant Enron, so we rewatched it with him recently. All of us were struck by how much of what it concludes applies directly to today's financial disasters and fraud.
The more things change, as they say, the more they stay the same.
There may be a fresh breeze blowing, however, among some young people who plan corporate careers but don't want to wind up as the stars of "bad guy documentaries" in 15 or 20 years.
NPR recently reported that a group of Harvard Business School students have drawn up what they call the "MBA Hippocratic Oath." They give me some hope that "honor" won't be such a rare word in the future.
Take the Oath - To learn more about this author, visit Karen E. Klein's Website.
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Honor. It's a word that you don't hear much anymore, except maybe in reference to antiquated notions of chivalry or, horrifically, as an Orwellian descriptor for murder in repressive, male-dominated societies.
So I was struck, late last year, how often the word came up when I interviewed Turney Stevens, dean of Lipscomb's College of Business.
We were talking about ethics in business, which became something of an antiquated notion itself in recent years, as we have all sadly discovered.
But dishonor, greed and outright fraud is nothing new. My son wanted to watch "The Smartest Guys in the Room," the excellent documentary about the rise and fall of energy giant Enron, so we rewatched it with him recently. All of us were struck by how much of what it concludes applies directly to today's financial disasters and fraud.
The more things change, as they say, the more they stay the same.
There may be a fresh breeze blowing, however, among some young people who plan corporate careers but don't want to wind up as the stars of "bad guy documentaries" in 15 or 20 years.
NPR recently reported that a group of Harvard Business School students have drawn up what they call the "MBA Hippocratic Oath." They give me some hope that "honor" won't be such a rare word in the future.
Take the Oath - To learn more about this author, visit Karen E. Klein's Website.
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